English Quotes
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
~George Carlin
~George Carlin
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
~Willard Van Orman Quine
~Willard Van Orman Quine
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.
~Evan Parker
~Evan Parker
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
~Ludwig Quidde
~Ludwig Quidde
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
~Patricia Ireland
~Patricia Ireland
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
~Otto Hahn
~Otto Hahn
Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.
~Andy Partridge
~Andy Partridge
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
~Henry Martyn
~Henry Martyn
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
~Robert E. Lee
~Robert E. Lee
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
~Malcolm Bradbury
~Malcolm Bradbury
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
~Clarence Darrow
~Clarence Darrow
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
~Robert Frost
~Robert Frost
I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.
~Bruce Bennett
~Bruce Bennett
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
~Dick Schaap
~Dick Schaap
I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.
~John Hawkes
~John Hawkes
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
~Walter Legge
~Walter Legge
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.
~James Carr
~James Carr
I had the choice of songs. I didn't know whether they were English, French, Italian, Russian, Jewish, German or what the hell their nationality was!
~Jessie Matthews
~Jessie Matthews
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
~Kate DiCamillo
~Kate DiCamillo
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement.
~Penelope Lively
~Penelope Lively
I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.
~Connie Francis
~Connie Francis
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
~Malcolm Bradbury
~Malcolm Bradbury
I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that's how the interest picked up on us over here.
~John Deacon
~John Deacon
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
~Jet Li
~Jet Li
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
~Lynn Abbey
~Lynn Abbey
I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.
~Cynthia Payne
~Cynthia Payne
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
~Cher
~Cher
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.
~Stephen Rea
~Stephen Rea
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
~Doug Larson
~Doug Larson
If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
~John Keegan
~John Keegan
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
~Robert Fitzgerald
~Robert Fitzgerald
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
~Patrick White
~Patrick White
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
~Henry Sweet
~Henry Sweet
It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
~Christopher Plummer
~Christopher Plummer
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
~Carl Sagan
~Carl Sagan
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
~Kenneth Baker
~Kenneth Baker
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
~Terry Prachett
~Terry Prachett
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
~Quintus Ennius
~Quintus Ennius
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
~William Bennett
~William Bennett
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
~Jeremy Paxman
~Jeremy Paxman
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
~Edmond de Goncourt
~Edmond de Goncourt
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
~Stephen Gardiner
~Stephen Gardiner
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
~Thomas Beecham
~Thomas Beecham
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
~Tony Hillerman
~Tony Hillerman
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