Quotes of: English-school Keyword

Enemies! People these days don't have ! Not English people!

Lord Edgware Dies

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

Pele

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Tom Stoppard

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

Maxim Gorky

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Ernest Istook

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

Jacki Weaver

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

David Bowie

Katharine Clifton: Will we be alright? Almásy: Yes. Yes, absolutely. Katharine Clifton: "Yes" is a comfort. "Absolutely" is not.

The English Patient

Almásy: I just wanted you to know: I'm not missing you yet. Katharine Clifton: You will.

The English Patient

[Asked what he hates most] Almásy: Ownership. I hate being owned.

The English Patient

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

Robert Sean Leonard

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

Anthony Hopkins

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Melina Mercouri

The language of Shakespeare is the first and lasting affirmation of the great changes that took place in the sixteenth century, leaving the Middle English of Chaucer far behind. In many ways, the language has changed less in the 400 years since Shake...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The fairy or fantastic world replaces the classical Hades (or Hell) in Sir Orfeo, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight takes this fantasy element to new heights. Sir Gawain is one of the Knights of the Round Table, the followers of King Arthur, who is...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

By the way I also would say "I got a book." But your teacher and I are not "English teachers" in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English language ought to be: I'm concerned entirely with what it and however it came to be wha...

Letters to Children

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language ...

Pablo Picasso

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had...

Ishmael Beah

Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a sub...

Jodi Picoult

English Bob: This Strawberry Alice person, tell me again. Barber: Down the street and across. Greely's Beer Garden and Billiard Parlour. Just ask for Alice; say you want a game of billiards. English Bob: Even though I don't really wish to play. Barbe...

Unforgiven