523 Quotes About English

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Jace rolled his eyes. “It’s fascinating,” he said. “You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”(Jace, to Simon)

Many Continentals tink life is a game; the English think cricet is a game.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.