Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.
An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.
I do love cricket - it's so very English.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
American politicians do anything for money. . . English politicians take the money and won't do anything.
My interest, perhaps, came out of the trauma of being a young immigrant in this country and constantly feeling my "resident alien" status. I remember trying to learn English on kindergarten playgrounds. I tried hard to be a convincing American but it was a losing battle. I was labeled weird and that tag never left me - all through high school, I was always the oddball. It was not always an easy path - I just had to tell myself that one day, being on the periphery would become an asset (and I think it finally has, as a creative adult).
My folks were English. . . we were too poor to be British.
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
My English teacher, he's like, he's like Mr. Bu-fu.
I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
I'm very English, and we don't talk about emotions publicly.
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.
My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.
If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.