#english

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#am #dear #english #gentleman #good

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#beautiful #beautiful place #countryside #english #english countryside

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #biggest #design #dominates #english

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ↗

— George Crumb

#determined #english #except #good #i

I came to New York to study ballet and English. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#came #english #i #i came #new

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. ↗

— Evan Daugherty

#bidding #english #those #two #war

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

#chemical #chemical reactions #chemistry #concern #english

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. ↗

— Doug Larson

#english #english language #flowers #language #made

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#because #english #exactly #found #i