English Quote by P.C. Cast

“An English major is like being in a book club that costs $40,000 a year, has only annoying people in it, offers no refreshments…

— Aaron Goldfarb

“When you are an English major, they tell you that you can do anything, but what they really mean is that you could just…

— Nora McInerny Purmort

“Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.”

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!”

— Alan Jay Lerner

“...a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”

— Jim Rohn

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

— Wilkie Collins

“You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class”

— Lani Diane Rich

“Can anything be more boring than an upper-class Englishman?”

— Alice Walker

“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”

— Paul Bowles

“Don’t try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I’d rather dirty up.  ”

— S.L. Jennings

“I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.”

— Lauren Kate