English sayings
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- P.C. Cast99◆ Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.
- Lemony Snicket99◆ The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.
- Christopher Hitchens99◆ I'm bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
- Jarod Kintz99◆ The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.
- Stephen Fry99◆ ...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
- Karl Marx99◆ The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.
- Lemony Snicket99◆ Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
- Robert A. Heinlein99◆ I'm a man of leisure. That's because I have an English degree and can't get a job.?
- Jarod Kintz99◆ J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
- Anatole France99◆ When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
- Craig Ferguson99◆ Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
- Joseph Conrad99◆ Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.
- Jonathan Stroud99◆ We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
- Stephen Fry99◆ I'M SCOTTISH!
- Elizabeth Wein99
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