Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature and American history, but the English literature, which I thought was going to be helpful to me in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
“We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't… — Phillip Hoose Copy Share Image
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature.… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when… — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
