#english

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#disadvantage #english #great #know #language

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#american #american football #because #english #english football

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #bilingual #call #civics #consider

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#communism #english #only #same #socialism

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#moral #only #thinks #uncomfortable

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#car #englishman #give #his #keep

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#born #english #isaac #poland #singer

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. ↗

— Christian Slater

#disregard #english #factual #history #hollywood

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#character #commonplace #english #insular #joke

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences