English Quotes

"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."
-William Shakespeare

"O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics."
-Quintus Ennius

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
-Clarence Darrow

"The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."
-Dave Kellett

"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
-Doug Larson

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Me fail english? Thats unpossible."
-Matt Groening

"I have had the opportunity to have a shave and relax in the bath and have a good English breakfast."
-Norman Kember

"Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game."
-George Mikes

"My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether."
-Jorge Luis Borges

"There were a lot of things that were concerning me about this school before this. My son hasn't even had an English teacher all year, and the classes are so out of control."
-Angela Williams

"We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English."
-Kevin Appier

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
-Henry James

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
-Gordie Howe

"You see, I can't say it in English..."
-Carmen Kass

"She felt she wasn't ready. She wanted to work on her English a little more."
-Kevin Cory

"In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American descent, there were only two of us in the class."
-Todd Davis

"You would teach them English, and they'd teach you Spanish."
-Stephanie Evans

"English is the predominant business language."
-Rob Marr

"He said in real good English, 'Did one of my soldiers take anything from you?"
-Mario Tonelli

"Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead."
-Wilfred Owen

"Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them."
-Robert Graves

"If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor."
-Joseph P. Kennedy

"In her quiet way, Mary English mattered a lot."
-John Ellsworth

"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."
-Chi Chi Rodriguez

"Almost all the English bands."
-Steve Boone

"I speak two languages, Body and English."
-Mae West

"Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English."
-Alfred De Musset