E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.”
“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
“English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.”
“English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
“English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should be a discipline, certainly growing from England and France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and the Native traditions, particularly because those helped form the American canon. Those are our backgrounds. And then we'd be doing it the way it ought to be done. And someday I hope that it will be.”
“English: "It is paradoxical that we do not consider the constant death of our cells as our own death, while we do consider the death of ourselves as individuals, even though we are cells of society."
Česky: „Je paradox, že neustálé smrti svých buněk nepovažujeme za svou smrt, zatímco smrt sebe jako jedince ano, přestože jsme buňkou společnosti.”
“English language is like the olden times when women were seen but not heard. I am talking about some letters in the English alphabet that can be seen written down on paper but are forbidden to be mentioned when speaking.”
“English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.”
“English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.”
“English law in the 15th and 16th centuries, despite being manipulated in favour of the king, did to some extent offer protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Death sentences could in theory only be imposed after lawful judgment. Slavery had no recognition in English law. Torture remained an extra-legal resort, at odds with legal principle.”
“English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.”
Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir
“English: "Laws designed for the big city destroy the rural areas."
Česky: „Zákony navržené pro velkoměsto likvidují venkov.”
“English lecturers... who treat the Americans as a race of barbarians without any history should be taken for a tour round Washington before they are permitted to speak!”
Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935
“English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.”
“English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.”
“English
“Life waits for no one.
So choose to learn, to grow, and to laugh more often than you cry.”
Nederlands
“Het leven wacht op niemand.
Dus kies ervoor om te leren, te groeien en vaker te lachen dan te huilen.”
“English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.”
“English literature is a flying fish.”
“English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.”
“English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.”
“English majors understand human nature better than economists do.”
“English: "Means are limit of consequences."
Česky: „Prostředky jsou limitem následků.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Misunderstanding also arises from the assumption that people understand each other."
Česky: „Nedorozumění vzniká i z domněnky, že si lidé rozumí.”
“English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.”
“English music is white - it evades everything.”
Source: A future for English music, and other lectures
“English: "Not voting means choosing totality; voting for an empty envelope means choosing democracy, but none of the candidates adequately represent your views."
Česky: „Nevolit znamená volit totalitu; volit prázdnou obálku znamená volit demokracii, ale žádný z kandidátů dostatečně nereprezentuje tvé názory.”
“English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it”
“English old ladies still sentimentalize about the "wisdom of the East" and American intellectuals about the "earth consciousness" of the negro.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“English: "One becomes immortal when their thoughts would be accepted even by their murderer."
Česky: „Nesmrtelným se stává ten, jehož myšlenky by i jeho vrah přijal za své.”
“English: "Opposites should complement, not exclude."
Česky: „Protiklady se mají doplňovat, ne vylučovat.”
“English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.”
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class
“English: "Our actions are contemplation of the universe."
Česky: „Naše konání je přemýšlením vesmíru.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Our creation is not our decision."
Česky: „Náš vznik není naše rozhodnutí.”
“English: "Pain is a manifestation of democracy of cells."
Česky: „Bolest je projevem demokracie buněk.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.”
“English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.”
Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c
“English: "People adore sex organs of flowers and hide their own ones."
Česky: „Lidé obdivují pohlavní orgány květin a své schovávají.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.”
Source: In a Good Place: A Novel
“English people don’t like to be told ‘enjoy your meal’. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.”
Source: How to Be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
“English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.”
“English people have seen me get through scandals.”
“English physicians kill you, the French let you die.”
“English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.”
“English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.”
“English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.”
“English poet Phillip Larkin’s famous poem,’Toads,’ suggest that two types of toads drive a person to work for the dull business of making money. First, is the influence of society for a person to labor in a conventional manner, and second, the inner pressure people exert upon themselves to procure a secure future by working and saving for their old age. Larkin concludes that a person is doomed if either type of brute toad squats on their life. Some people drive the squatty toad away by living on their wit, or by willingly accepting a lifestyle without fame, fortune, and financial security. Perchance as Philip Larkin suggested in his illustrious poem, I should not continue to allow the toad work to squat on my life by escaping the burdensome exterior pressure to work without spiritual replenishment. Perhaps with thoughtful study, I can eliminate a malignant personal tumor that leaching manifestations drove me to strive for money, fame, and unrequited love.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.”
“English: "Primary adapt your surroundings, secondarily adapt yourself to your surroundings."
Česky: „Primárně si přizpůsobuj okolí, sekundárně se přizpůsobuj okolí.”
“English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.”
“English: "Shopping for meat kills."
Česky: „Nakupování masa zabíjí.”