English Quotes - page 3

It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Carl Sagan)
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. View quote
Charles Dickens
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. View quote
Alan Perlis
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. View quote
James Joyce
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there. View quote
Joan of Arc
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies. View quote
Roy Blount
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. View quote
Winston Churchill
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. View quote
Winston Churchill
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. (Horatio Nelson)
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. View quote
Karl Marx
...to Americans English manners are far more frightening than none at all... View quote
Randall Jarrell
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. View quote
Mark Strand
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win. View quote
Maureen Johnson
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. View quote
Conan O'Brien
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. (Alex Cox)
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. View quote
Dick Schaap
I was also in love with the English language. View quote
Dick Schaap
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell