The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily. — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart. — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed. — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but… — David Chang Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
Nicki Minaj thanked me on the first mixtape that she put out. She shouted me out, said thank you for allowing her… — Monie Love Copy Share Image
“She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The English don't like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It's alright if they come from an 'intellectual,', but from a… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
“As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside… — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not… — Eddi Reader Copy Share Image
