The English Quotes
Stop smiling as if we'd been acquainted with you for ages!" #VeronicaLedyanova. #ItalianPassion
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)
I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair
It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.
Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery
I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.
He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.
There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working.
I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly
I was not born with English in my pocket.
Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.
You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.
I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.
You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.
By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.
A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.
Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....
She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.
The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!
I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself.
Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.
There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.