#english

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#moral #only #thinks #uncomfortable

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#car #englishman #give #his #keep

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#born #english #isaac #poland #singer

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#cambridge #englishman #every #i #lived

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. ↗

— John Strachan

#before #complied #delivered #discourse #drowned

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#already #course #dominated #drama #dramatic

Englishmen have always loved Moliere. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#englishmen #loved

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. ↗

— Mark Strand

#creative writing #creative writing programs #departments #english #happens

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#backward #cannot #english #incapable #internet