Quotes about English
The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."
- Anonymous
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ( On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers )
- Samuel Johnson
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
- Charles Dickens
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
- Edmund Burke
O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).
- Richard Baxter
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
- Oscar Wilde
Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.
- Rich Brian
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
- Dorothy Sayers
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
- GK Chesterton
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
- Virginia Woolf
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
- JRR Tolkien