Top 1200 English Love Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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 love English, Spanish, and German football.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it's full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak.

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

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

I love French and English bulldogs. They're hilarious and adorable.

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

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

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

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

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

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

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.

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

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

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.

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

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

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.

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.

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

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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

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

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

I love the English language. Words have power.

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