#english

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. ↗

— John Amery

#appeal #arms #been #call #defence

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it. ↗

— Christian Bale

#actually #again #batman #before #by the time

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. ↗

— Christian Bale

#english #famous #i #our #world

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

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#could #english #english teacher #growing #growing up

I am going to knock the slut out of you. And that should take some doing, you uppity English tramp! ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#english

Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#english

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#buddhism #tipitaka #english

They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#eric-northman #english