(311 quotes found)
“That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.”
William Blackstone
“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb”
English Proverb
“But when push came to shove, ... I think it stuck in the Gallic craw that a) I was English and b) I had been in a pop group — though the French are better at allowing movement between disciplines. Then Nadine died, and we put the project on the shelf. I picked it up again in '95.”
Roger Waters
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer”
William Caxton
“You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.”
Cyndi Lauper
“At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do”
Brian Clough
“The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.”
Colin Firth
“All last year we tried to teach him Fernando Valenzuela English, and the only word he learned was million.”
Tommy Lasorda
“Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Cool, and quite English, imperturbable.”
Lord Byron
