#english

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#english #english language #groups #higher #hispanics

In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids. ↗

— Bill Condon

#english #european #hollywood #maids #middle

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#down #english #friend #i #i am

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty. ↗

— Georgia Salpa

#english #get #i #ireland #lot

The English artist likes line more than color or texture. ↗

— Neville Weston

#art

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ↗

— Henry James

#english #literature #summer #beauty

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#described #english #heard #i #i think

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