English Quotes - page 7

English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society - that is what interests me. (Matthew Arnold)
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog! View quote
Aubrey Beardsley
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds... View quote
Patrick Pearse
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it. View quote
Edith Wharton
Jackson: Yeah, "Wacko Jacko". Where'd that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings, I feel that, when you do that to me. It's not nice. Don't do it. I'm not a wacko. View quote
Michael Jackson
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. View quote
Hermione Gingold
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me. View quote
Lennox Lewis
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country. View quote
Aravind Adiga
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that's not true at all any more. It's one of the world's fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English. View quote
Aravind Adiga
It's such a surprise For Eastern eyes To see, That though the English are effete, They're quite impervious to heat. View quote
Noël Coward
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England. (Bret Harte)
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life. View quote
Martin Amis
Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about. View quote
Alexander Ovechkin
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. View quote
Saki
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters. View quote
John Banville
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. View quote
David Brin
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. (William Cowper)
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course. View quote
Ralph Barton Perry
God' is the name given to the most ‘important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man? View quote
Laura Riding