Quotes about English
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
— Edmund Burke
O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).
— Richard Baxter
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
— Oscar Wilde
What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!
— Dorothy Sayers
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
— GK Chesterton
But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
— Virginia Woolf
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
— JRR Tolkien
Two wretched Moslems asserted "that the firing was done by the people of the English;" I asked one of them why he lied so, and he could utter no excuse: no other falsehood came to his aid as he stood abashed, before me, and so telling him not to tell palpable falsehoods, I left him gaping.
— David Livingstone
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
— John Wycliffe