#english

J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence. ↗

— Anatole France

#english #french #love #passion #prefer

It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#club #committing #english #english football #fantastic

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#english #had #kindly #learn #letters

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #bit #english #found #irish

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 Hitchens

#english #translations #jesus

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#knowledge #teaching #teaching

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#disappointment #emotions #english #excitement #fail

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 Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#english language #government #help #here #i

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#english