#english

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#event #first #major #picture #premiere

People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#english #i #know #like #maybe

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#dutch #englishman #fairly #families #maintain

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#english-speaking #films #i #important #love

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#completely #different #english #feel #i

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#again #am #bare #does #englishmen

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#communication #english #language #communication

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#devil #englishmen #englishwomen #lucifer #match