#english

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century

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

— James D. Watson

#heard #lover #never #only #patient

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#course #england #englishman #except #find

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#around #born #both #bristol #english

I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#combination #edgar #english #europe #fantastic

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difficult #easy #english #more #much

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. ↗

— James Whistler

#apart #cannot #consider #english #folk

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. ↗

— E. B. White

#education #english #getting #judgment #like

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. ↗

— Patrick White

#countryside #english #english school #explore #four

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish