English Quotes

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.

And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.