English Quotes

Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. (Dale Carnegie)
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. View quote
Robert Benchley
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? View quote
Clarence Darrow
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. View quote
Henry James
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. View quote
P. D. James
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. View quote
Florence Nightingale
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. (Alan Perlis)
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. View quote
Malcolm Bradbury
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. View quote
Mike Myers
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. View quote
James Thurber
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. View quote
Derek Walcott
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? View quote
George Carlin
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. View quote
George Mikes
People who speak Belarusian can not do anything except talk on it, because it is impossible to express anything great in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world. Russian and English. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. View quote
Raymond Williams
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. View quote
Golda Meir
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. View quote
Terry Pratchett