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“I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.”

Wells I Can Country Play Used Hate Games Speak Language England Cricket English Language

Author:Kapil Dev

“From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.”

World Wells Children Language Fields England Folks Deeper Wit Spokes Farms New World Drank New England Wit And Wisdom

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom. The language bears that out very clearly. The English and the foreign are still all too inclined to refer to the island of Great Britain as 'England'. But at no time have they ever customarily referred to an English empire.”

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Author:Linda Colley

“Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.”

Ifs Feels Home Seems Death Used House Language Difficult Differences Church Class England Mice Working Class

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”

“In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”

Men Night Language Dark Battle England Britain English Language Englishmen Dark Days

Author:John F. Kennedy

“My books have sold largely in England, have been translated into many languages, and passed through several editions in foreign countries. I have heard it said that the success of a work abroad is the best test of its enduring value. I doubt whether this is at all trustworthy; but judged by this standard my name ought to last for a few years.”

Years Has Beens Said Book Country Lasts Values Names Language Doubt Heard Ought Standards Tests England Endure Judged Autobiography Trustworthy Foreign Countries

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29:

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.”

Earth Language Race India England Western Partners Crush Heels Exploitation English Language Englishmen Deliverance

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?”

Ifs Thinking Fall Language India England France Germany Ruined English Language Englishmen Deliverance

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.”

Source: John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer

“Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God. Highly similar delusions, if expressed by educated men in obscure language, lead to professorships of philosophy; and if expressed by emotional men in eloquent language, lead to dictatorships.”

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.”

Ifs Looks Littles Law Three Names Language Bits Little Bit England Thrown Hunk Brackets

Author:Jude Law

“It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.”

Believe May Has Beens Book School Used Found Language I Believe Written Information England Historical Valuable Exaggeration Sanskrit

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you know, you have to start pointin' at things. You learn how to deal with it. What I'm tryin' to say is that it's not as convenient as touring in the states or say somewhere like Australia or even England where they speak the same language fluently.”

Knows Said Stills States Guy Speak Language Deals England Hops Australia Touring Convenient Cab Speak English

Author:Vinnie Paul

“I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.”

“Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.”

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Author:William Golding

“I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.”

Thinking Way Reason Language England My Way Reason Why Accents Old Fashioned

Author:Sylvia Plath

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”

Two Country America Language England Two Countries Common Language Two Nations England And America Britain And America Divided Country

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less and a cleaner, better stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

May Book Lying Language Land Wind Cold England Stronger Storm East Bitter Sunshine Blast Cleaners Watson Dr Watson

Book:The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)

Source: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 2) (The Annotated Books)

“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”

Source: The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England

“I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.”

Firsts Speak Language Moon First Time England Isolated No Friends

Author:Jean Alesi

“To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.”

Way Littles Language Produce England Series Lips Teeth Insulting

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England”

Thinking Country Literature Left Language Loses England

Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.”

World America Language Democracy Modern Victory England Modern World Perversion

Author:Anthony Burgess

“The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.”

Stories Lasts Language Sound England Silent Bounds Cinema Prose Contrast

Author:Derek Jarman