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
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to… — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“You don’t see the point of English literature?’ ‘I don’t see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?” — Kate Atkinson 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
'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar… — Sefi Atta 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
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A college student who wants to file a complaint of sexual assault within the campus disciplinary system informs a university employee such… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves,… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth 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
“John Milton has, since his own lifetime, always been one of the major figures in English literature, but his reputation has changed… — Ronald Carter 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
“Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.” — R. Curtis Venture Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.” — David Herbert Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of… — JJ Feild 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
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
