Quotes with english

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  • Alex Cox Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Henry James Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Alice Walker Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Brendan Behan The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bjork The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
    His Life and Wit
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Agate The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
    James Agate
    English diarist and theatre critic (1877 - 1947)
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  • Derek Walcott The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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