English Island

English Island may refer to:

  • English Island, Isles of Scilly, an uninhabited rocklet in the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom
  • English Island (South Australia), an island in the Sir Joseph Banks Group off the coast of Eyre Peninsula in Australia.

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or island:

    The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
    Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)

    For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)