#english

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american president #english #king #lord

I read good. I was an English major. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#english major #good #i #major #read

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

No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem'd polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another. ↗

— Benjamin Martin

#age

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. ↗

— Neville Weston

#englishmen #art

So she did the English thing. She changed the subject. ↗

— Steve Hockensmith

#english #subject #change

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

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. ↗

— James Thurber

#decline #english #english language #expression #fact