523 Quotes About English

And over the phone he could hear the ten legged insect already scrabbling across the keyboard!

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.

Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.