#english

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. ↗

— Karl Marx

#generalization #lack #material #revolution #revolutionary

If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#englishman #gets #run #truck

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that. ↗

— Theresa May

#allowed #becoming #been #being #britain

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? ↗

— Theresa May

#anyone #build #challenges #children #country

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ↗

— John McCarthy

#beautiful word #between #compulsory #contemporary #difference

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York. ↗

— Roddy McDowall

#boy #could #english #i #knew

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English. ↗

— Matthew McGrory

#criminal justice #english #i #justice #majored

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. ↗

— Scott McNealy

#because #charge #could #dollars #english

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#english #especially #novel #personal #requires