The English Quotes

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

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.

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.

In English every word can be verbed.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

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.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

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

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

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.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.