The English Quotes

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

I grew up listening to English music.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.