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English Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than…
- We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything…
- Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I…
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