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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. - P D James Quotes
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated! - John Astin Quotes
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. - Randall Jarrell Quotes
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. - Doug Larson Quotes
I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times. - Steve Kanaly Quotes
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan Quotes
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet hes able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it. - Thomas Jane Quotes
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. - Robert E Lee Quotes
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as Im Australian. - Radha Mitchell Quotes
One of the joys of the English language is that you can play around with the meaning of words. I dont think it works so well in Spanish. - Julian Clary Quotes
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. - David Mccullough Quotes
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. - George Woodcock Quotes
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you dont need any fingers. - Larry Flynt Quotes
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isnt that the banjo players Porsche parked outside? - Jackson Browne Quotes
Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music. - Pat Boone Quotes
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing. - John Deacon Quotes
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. - Sue Grafton Quotes
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. - Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And its not by design. The United States dominates because its the biggest market. - Norman Spinrad Quotes
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. - Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
I always serve the writer first because Im English trained, even though Im American. - Robert Englund Quotes
President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which. - Dennis Miller Quotes
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. - Jonathan Lethem Quotes
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isnt an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. - Andrzej Wajda Quotes
They said I couldnt play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. - Roddy Mcdowall Quotes
Ive concentrated for a long time on English films because Ive got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think Im going to be away for about four months of year now. - Sadie Frost Quotes
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 Quotes
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. - Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode. - Gary Wright Quotes
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! - Philip Pullman Quotes
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