#english

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#college #college level #congress #end #english

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. ↗

— Luke Ford

#christian #civilize #democratic #divine #english-speaking

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. ↗

— John Fowles

#best #colossal #english #forgave #i

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#brook #compulsion #dictates #disposed #englishmen

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

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#atlantic ocean #bridge #english #i #i do

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#englishmen #france #passion #political #politics

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#divinity #english #english language #french #invoked

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#asserting #become #carry #closer #consequence

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#closer #common #connection #different #different people