Quotes about English

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The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'. — Saki
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. — Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anyt — Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it. — Robert Arger
Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days’ time. He will climb another one hundred floors to — Isa Kamari, The Tower
For him, the kampung was a place to live and work that was based on a steadfast and intimate relationship between man an — Isa Kamari, The Tower
Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned not on his humble b — Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. — Christian Bale
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. — Karl Lagerfeld
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. — John Krasinski
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English. — Jack Ma
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. — A. J. Liebling
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English. — Pankaj Mishra
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the lang — Derek Walcott
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sen — Teddy Thompson
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly. — Julie Burchill
I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. — Taylor Momsen
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide t — James Fenton
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. — George Mikes
My dad was an English professor. — Blake Lively