#english

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#contemporary #english #epic #epic poem #feel

Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#drink #english #gets #go #know

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#englishman #him #speaking #way

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#down #english #friend #i #i am

The English artist likes line more than color or texture. ↗

— Neville Weston

#art

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#devil #englishmen #englishwomen #lucifer #match

I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#around #babylon #bit #by the time #done

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

#call #consciously #english #i #make

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#away #called #done #english #film