#english

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#english #even #going #learn #speak

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#bachelor #english #formal #had #i

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives. ↗

— David Brin

#best #better #could #differential #doubt

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English. ↗

— Harry Browne

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When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

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Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#culture #english #i #just #me