Top 1200 English Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

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

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

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

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

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 think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

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.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many people in American society that being black is its own class, a blanket class. That, I believe, is an erroneous and deeply offensive view.

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

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.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

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

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

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

One thing I love about America is that I'm not boxed in by my upbringing here. England is still so class-based that there are certain roles that I just won't go for. I'm a middle-class boy and I won't go for the scruffy working-class role, which is frustrating, and here I can play anything.

Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term.

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

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

I loved English and I tell kids that without English I wouldn't be able to rap.

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

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

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

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.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

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

If I believe in anything when it comes to writing, and I can't stress enough that I detest writing, it's something that sticks with me not from any English class but from some awfully recondite driver's ed. seminars I had the privilege to audit during my mid-teens, and to this day I probably misunderstand it anyway. It's the term "right of way."

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

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

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

By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation's experience of an even more important class - the kind in which they learn. And that's one thing we simply can't afford.

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.

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.

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

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

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

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements

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

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Don't forget I'm not English. English people maybe don't behave like we Europeans do.

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