Quotes of: English-literature Keyword

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Chow Yun-Fat

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

David Hockney

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

James Fenton

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

John Gielgud

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Joanna Lumley

Otto: I love robbing the English, they're so polite.

A Fish Called Wanda

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): You're an unusual cop. Lee: Well, you're an unusual killer.

The Killer

Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Arrest me later! Fight now!

The Killer

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

Stephen Moyer

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

John Deacon

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

America Ferrera

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Anil Kapoor

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Aristotle Onassis

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

Alain Prost

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Bill Bryson

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Umberto Eco

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Florence Nightingale

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs...

The Complete English Poems

It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the News of the W...

Decline of the English Murder

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men ut...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol 3: A Miscellany