The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.
If I was English I'd kill myself
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.
They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.
Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost. "
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.