(311 quotes found)
“Join in -- give the English pains in their legs on June 17 against Switzerland,”
David Beckham
“The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.”
William Hazlitt
“Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.”
Calvin Trillin
“I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.”
Shirley Hufstedler
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)”
English Proverb
“Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.”
Norman Cook
“If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas.”
Ma Ferguson
“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Wilfred Owen
“The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.”
Margaret Halsey
