Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, english and/or proverb:
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)
“It is yours,
And might we lay th’old proverb to your charge,
So like you, ‘tis the worse.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)