523 Quotes About English

Kiingereza kililetwa na wakoloni wa Kiingereza kutoka Uingereza na walikitumia katika masuala yote ya kiutawala ya Afrika Mashariki. Kililetwa pia na wamisionari waliojenga shule na kuwafundisha Kiingereza wanafunzi na walimu na watu wengine wa kawaida, kwa lengo la kuwasaidia katika kazi yao ya kueneza dini kama wakalimani, hivyo kufanya Kiingereza kienee zaidi kuliko Kiswahili.

Hata wamisionari, hasa wamisionari wa Kiprotestanti, hawakukitumia Kiingereza katika kueneza dini kwa sababu hadhira yao isingewaelewa. Badala yake walitumia lugha za makabila ya Kiswahili, hivyo kujikuta wakieneza zaidi utamaduni wa Kiswahili kuliko wa Kiingereza au Kijerumani.

The only time she’s come close to being “known” was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.

A difference is, exists, between English or American language, for what language could have been.

Me can read good.

He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home—even a pebbledash semi—being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.

You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.

He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e. He found things like croquet, cream teas and cricket both incomprehensible and irresistible and he would have been in his element here.

Love is happy only when it is confident. When it is humble, it is full of pain and misgiving; there is hardly any happiness to be had out of it at all.