English

Famous quotes containing the word english:

“When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)