#english

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#better #education #englishman #every #form

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#basically #blues #clapton #early #english

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#everyone #funniest #get #line #say

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. ↗

— Natalie Massenet

#before #california #degree #english #english literature

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#french #predisposed #pride #vanity

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#athletes #bilingual #english #profanity #professional

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#death #englishmen #kiss #lips #red

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it is an easy trick to hook people in. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#anything #audience #easy #english #godlike