English Quotes
2324 quotes by 1702 authors
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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
— David Attenborough
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You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
— Margaret Atwood
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no…
— John James Audubon
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
— Walter Bagehot
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came…
— Christian Bale
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I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of…
— Javier Bardem
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
— Felix Baumgartner
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I do love cricket - it's so very English.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
— Thomas Beecham
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
— Robert Benchley
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -…
— Annie Besant
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English.…
— Juliette Binoche
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Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
— David Bowie
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I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century…
— Geraldine Brooks
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