Top 1200 English Grammar Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Sitting in an English Garden waiting for the sun If the sun don't come You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

One of the reasons we require immigrants to learn English before they naturalize is that a person who cannot understand English will not be able to participate in the political community in any but the most limited capacity.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English political virtues - rule of law, free speech, the franchise.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don't understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had a special class for my brother and I, but we spoke proper English.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On the whole, directors were treated absurdly well, and workers badly, and most industries were weakened by class suspicion and false economies and cynicism. But the same qualities that made English people seem stubborn and secretive made them, face to face, reliable and true to their word. I thought: The English do small things well and big things badly.

There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more tenaciously held by the ordinary Frenchman than that the sale of a wife in the market-place is an habitual and an accepted fact in English life.

"Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me." "Why not?" "He says lunch isn't a subject." I glance at him. "It isn't." "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.