#english

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

I was a terrible English student. ↗

— Leon Uris

#i #student #terrible

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#english #even #going #learn #speak

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ↗

— William Blake

#degrade #empire #englishmen #follows #foundation

'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#been #discovery #drama #drawn #english

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#day #english #first #half #heart

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#college #english #english major #graduate #graduate school

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#courses #did #english #english literature #figured

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #american tradition #english #existed #heritage

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story. ↗

— Eric Bana

#college #english #going #had #i