English

Famous quotes containing the word english:

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)

“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)

“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)