English Quote by Robert Aickman Download Open image ““You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.”” — Robert Aickman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare English English language Languages Speak english
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.” — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Learning English was like lifting a veil, one which would be, he'd learn, impossible to fully restore.” — Glenn Diaz Copy Share Image
“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.” — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“He had always been too English; by which he supposed he meant that he was ordinary.” — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would. — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“...human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“...Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Give up all the wild ideas that buzz round you like wasps. Or like bluebottles. […] Find a nice, ordinary girl, not too attractive… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While we like to think queueing is unique to British culture, the truth is that we are mere amateurs. The old Soviet Union turned… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
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