1336 English Quotes for You to Enjoy

There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot. Edie Campbell

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. Edmond de Goncourt

Nation Crooked True Individuals French Contrary English Who Honest

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why. Edmund Morgan

Abandoned More Council Nobody Armed Armed Services Sure Privy Order Centuries Next English Fought Why Services Two

The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here. Edmund Morgan

Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States. Edmund Morgan

Government Late Consider Later States Embodied Developments Along Ideas House Period House Of Commons Documents Because Were Debates American Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Commons Century Juxtaposition Capricious English Many United Why United States

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Edmund Waller

Ocean Others Abode Only Road Make May Use English

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded. Edmund White

Death Quality Fate Translation Meditation Evident Characters Superb Prose Anne Also Well Sound Falling Version May Turner Page English Deep Original Even Novel Captured Rounded Things Imagined

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute. Edmund White

Speak Cute Living Everyone Out Paris Could He French Because Go Model American Used English Who Suddenly

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon

Language Chaste Obscurity Learned Passages Text Left Decent English

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles. Edward Said

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. Edward Said

Life Politics War Travel Beginning Young Think Someone Directly Write Involved Until Renaissance Himself Felt Caught Up June English Who Professor Palestinian Started

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. Edward Sapir

Science Language Diplomacy Once Latin Secure More Only French Accepted Proved Than English International International Language

I'm Turkish-American; I was a freshman at Harvard in 1995 and 96. I did teach English in Hungary in the summer of 1996. I'm an autobiographical writer in the sense that whether in fiction or nonfiction, the issues and relationships and phenomena and problems I'm most interested in exploring are the ones I've experienced personally. Elif Batuman

Problems Hungary Sense Relationships Summer Harvard Writer Most Nonfiction Freshman Issues Did Autobiographical Experienced Fiction Whether Interested Personally Teach Exploring English Phenomena

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak

Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language. Elif Safak

Time Me Age Language Acquired English Started Third

All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them. Elizabeth Bibesco

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. Elizabeth Hurley

Laugh Always Being Anything English

I like Yorkshire Tea - very strong and English. Elsa Peretti

Strong Tea Like Very Yorkshire English

One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a 'Pootie' sketch, when she was melted over him like butter on an English muffin. Elvis Mitchell

Best Melted Over Like Mesmerized She Him Cameo Years Done Sketch Muffin English Her Butter Things

I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model. Emily Ratajkowski

Attitude Mom Me You Celebrate Yourself Down Older Think Gave Way Crucial Putting Look She Without Understand Equipment Feminist Intellectual Model Modeling Really Apologize English Professor Started Needing

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school. Emily Rios

Me You Speak School Parents First Never Had Know Knowing Always Understood Were Up Going Against Spanish Bilingual Teachers Teaching English Even Growing Growing Up

English Quotes

No more english quotes