If only…the saddest words in the English language.
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Almásy: How can you ever smile, as if your life hadn't capsized?
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
As we have seen, French culture and language interacted with native English culture for several generations after the Norman Conquest. A common word such as 'castle' is a French loan word, for example; and the whole romance tradition comes from the F...
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won...
Combo: But I've got one question to ask you. Do you consider yourself English, or Jamaican? [There's a long uneasy silence, as Milky looks around nervously to the rest of his friends... ] Milky: [eventually] English. Combo: Lovely, lovely, love you f...
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello
My scary strange English shall only be counted as my English problem.
My master's degree was in English literature.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.
