Top 1200 Old English Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.

English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

I was a Barcelona fan. My favorite player was Ronaldinho. But I watched a lot of English football and admired lots of English teams.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.

I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course.

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

I speak English. I dream in it. I cannot separate my English from my Shona; I see the world with those two languages.

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

You can't be an American if you don't speak English. Our public schools should be mandated to teach all children in English.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.