The English Quotes

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

I was an English major in college!

I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

I'm into books – I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck as you can get.

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

I read good. I was an English major.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

English music is white - it evades everything.

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Jesus is not from Georgia. Jesus does not speak English. And Jesus is not a member of the NRA.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

The people don't take baths and they don't speak English. No golf courses, no room service. Who needs it?

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Verbing weirds language.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

The English language is nobody's special property.

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.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.