English Quotes - page 8

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors. (Enoch Powell)
...the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who are mystified into the notion that they are not political bondmen, by that great juggle of the ‘English Constitution'-a thing of monopolies, and Church-craft, and sinecures, armorial hocus-pocus, primogeniture, and pageantry! View quote
Richard Cobden
The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground.A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. View quote
George Orwell
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. View quote
George Orwell
I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. View quote
George Gascoigne
He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment. View quote
Claud Cockburn
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and remember who you are. View quote
Lewis Carroll
If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend. (Richard Feynman)
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned. View quote
Raymond Williams
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best. View quote
Ray Bradbury
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. View quote
William Blake
The question now was...whether that beautiful fabric [the English constitution]...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country. View quote
Charles James Fox
Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. View quote
H. L. Mencken
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. View quote
William Golding
That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas! View quote
Miriam A. Ferguson
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are. View quote
Sean Connery
We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English. (Scott Adams)
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. View quote
Arsène Wenger
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany. View quote
Hermann Göring
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare. View quote
Ethan Hawke
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion. View quote
Learned Hand