"The English have a miraculous power of turning……" — Oscar Wilde
"The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water."
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… — 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… — Christian Bale
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — 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