Best English Language Lines
251 English Language quotes by 218 unique authors
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The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
— Karel Capek
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
— Samuel Johnson
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When two Eglishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
— Samuel Johnson
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A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to…
— George Mikes
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The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.
— E. M. Delafield
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The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.
— George Mikes
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The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion -…
— Henry Steele Commager
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In English every word can be verbed.
— Alan Perlis
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I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play…
— Kapil Dev
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It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I…
— Bill Nighy
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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not…
— Walter J. Phillips
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But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For…
— Tony Robbins
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The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
— Bernard Goldberg
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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
— Maxim Gorky
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
— Quentin Crisp
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the…
— Umberto Eco
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English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the…
— James Fenton
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
— Carrie Fisher
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Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
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