If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our...
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our host decrees no water here. Let dullards drink the Nymph's pale brew, The sluggish thin their blood with dew. For such pale stuff we hav...
If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be len...
The Grocery Checkout Proviso: The more things you care about, the more vulnerable you are. If you are part of that epicurean minority in this country that is still offended by violations of the English language, you will be slapped in the face every ...
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, co...
The Bride: [English] I've kept you alive for two reasons. And the first reason is information. Sofie Fatale: [French] Burn in hell, blonde bitch! I'll tell you nothing! The Bride: [English] But I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't g...
Little Bill Daggett: [to W. W. Beauchamp, referring to the passage in Beauchamp's book where English Bob claims to have killed "Two Gun" Corcoran because Corcoran insulted a lady's honor] Yeah, well, a lotta folks did call him "Two Gun," but that was...
This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.
I know my own heart to be entirely English.
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.
I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.
I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian.
For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
