The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years. . . all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.
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.
In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world. . . except for China where they have all those derelicts.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.
The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.
When in doubt about who's to blame. Blame the English.
I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English [because of The Mighty Boosh].
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.