The English Quotes

the bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don’t speak English. And who don’t count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can’t read maps.

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.

If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.

My master's degree was in English literature.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

This made no sense to me, probably because I speak English and have never had a head injury.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

In my mind's eye

He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

I live on remnants of dreams

There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh!

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish?

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.

Excuse me, I must go and putt

What good is ye world when ye canst not livest hither.

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich.

You must know in what way you are going to use the morphology and syntax to build your 'how

As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!

وإذا أنْتَ أثْبَتتَ أنَّ الكَلْبَ أوْفى مِنْكَ، فَأنا ما زِلْتُ إنْسانًاAnd if you have proven that dog is more loyal than you, I am still human

Time is your weapon, If you lose it, you will lose the battle.

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

My task as a language arts teacher is to provide texts that are not so difficult that my students shut down in frustration and not so easy that my students don't push their thinking.

Education has all the vowels in English. Unquestionably, it is not the only word.

I beg your pardon I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Stop telling God what you want to have, He is going to use what you have left to give you what you need.

I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.

Unless you acknowledge your vulnerability for sin, you won’t pray against it and you’ll end up experiencing defeat. The most effective weapon the enemy has against you - is you

Satan can’t prevail against you when you know God’s Word and stand on it. So have your ‘It is written’ armour ready. Build yourself up on the Word of God before the attack comes.