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English Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was…
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable…
- Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
- ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.…
- Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
More English Quotes
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my… — Christian Bale
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
- I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley