Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Ernest Istook

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Maurice Druon

Violet: Gino doesn't speak much English, or at least he pretends not to.

Bound

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Anna Held

I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.

Alessandro Nivola

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

Van Wyck Brooks

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

Vanessa Paradis

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

Walter Legge

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

Trinny Woodall

In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ru...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in my mind. Why this is, I’m not sure. Perhaps because great books seem heavensent. Perhaps because I know that each nove is a p...

The Boy on the Back of the Turtle: Seeking God, Quince Marmalade, and the Fabled Albatross on Darwin's Islands

One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use, as a "generator of ideas" — for we were running out of them — those works of fantastic literature, that popular ge...

His Master's Voice

Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble. 5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in...

A Study in Scarlet

It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction, myth, literary tops. Politics, like literature, must above all know itself and distrust itself. As a final observation, I should ...

The Uses of Literature

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Eating Animals

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92]

The Educated Imagination

The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

The Fantastic In Literature

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers...

David Mitchell

From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it...

Edmund White