English quotes

• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Henry James) [words/english/language]
• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. (James Agate) [english/talent]
• I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. ( Napoleon I) [english/willpower/matter/time]
• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. (Raymond Chandler) [vulgarity/irony/english/give]
• Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [being/english/being/being]
• The English never draw a line without blurring it. (Winston Churchill) [english]
• If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. (Winston Churchill) [english]
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Clarence Seward Darrow) [speak/english/speak]
• I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [english/speech]
• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [intellect/understanding/english/honesty]
• Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek. (Benjamin Franklin) [english]
• The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [willpower/english/being/more]
• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith) [english/more/virtue]
• Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Henry James) [words/english/language]
• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. (James Joyce) [english/ingenious/english/reading]
• Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. (H. L. Mencken) [english]
• Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. (Malcolm Muggeridge) [english]
• The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed. (Dorothy Parker) [words/english/language]
• Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. (Theodore Roosevelt) [english]
• Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. (George Bernard Shaw) [nice/english/people]
• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. (George Bernard Shaw) [english/respect/language/willpower]
• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. (Evelyn Waugh) [english/school/willpower/housing]
• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Walt Whitman) [english/language/growth/time]
• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. (Oscar Wilde) [english]
• One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde) [health/english]
• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. (Oscar Wilde) [english/interest/art/question]
• You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. (Oscar Wilde) [thing/english]
• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me. I grew up in Mexico, not the US, and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset. (Salma Hayek) [english/culture/people/problem]
• Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. (Aristotle Onassis) [find/english/look]
• I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English. (Adriana Lima) [fashion/right/english]
• I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. (Aishwarya Rai) [more/english/movie]

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