English Quotes - page 2

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. (Hermann Ebbinghaus)
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
Sean O`Casey
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
Evelyn Waugh
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.
Evelyn Waugh
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.
Thomas Carlyle
This is England's greatest son, He that gained a hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gun.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles.
Garrison Keillor
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. (Samuel Johnson)
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
George Bernard Shaw
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Alice Walker
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.
Rebecca West
The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.
Dorothy Parker
Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
Aravind Adiga
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. (Anthony Trollope)
That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America (9/11 attacks). There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist.
Gwyneth Paltrow
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Walter Bagehot