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Ambrose Bierce quote: "Belladonna , n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a..."
Belladonna , n.: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. Ambrose Bierce
But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. Vladimir Nabokov
Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to something as simple as that? Why do you even have to ask? Why do you have to make a girl SAY something like this? I like you more than I like him, that's all. I wish I had fallen in love with somebody a little more handsome, of course. But I didn't. I fell in love with you! Haruki Murakami
They say the trouble with the Irish is that they rely too much on dreams and not enough on gunpowder. Whereas the English were shy on dreams, as usual, but had plenty of the other. Now we had both. Heath Ledger
Wilkie Collins quote: "The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes, but it has..."
The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes, but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place. Wilkie Collins
William Shakespeare quote: "the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He..."
the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national William Shakespeare
Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a type of first-person narration that has the characteristics of the spoken rather than the written word. David Lodge
It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box George Orwell
They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us."My Sookie hid a corpse?"I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun."Where did you learn that term, Northman?"I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies. Charlaine Harris
There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion. Ernest Hemingway
Lewis Carroll quote: "Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of..."
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either! Lewis Carroll
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American..."
Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that. Kurt Vonnegut
E. M. Forster quote: "They had nothing in common but the English language."
They had nothing in common but the English language. E. M. Forster
Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Alan Jay Lerner
This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter... Christopher Hitchens

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