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A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville." He pauses and looks back at me. "Are you speaking English?


Susan Ee


#english

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


#decay #english-literature #king #poetry #power

Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.


Thomas de Quincey


#tea #warmth #winter #english

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas.


Ma Ferguson


#english #enough #good #jesus #jesus christ

You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking.


Catherine Jinks


#prosper-english #life

They dragged the air mattress up to the widow's walk and eventually figured out how it was supposed to inflate, but Lucas had to read the instructions in Spanish because the English ones were nearly incomprehensible. Hilariously so. "Insert mouth to the purpose inflation," Helen whispered. ... "Expel lung into inflator tube," Lucas whispered back. "That sounds like it would hurt.


Josephine Angelini


#english

An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.


Will Self


#humor

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.


Jonathan Ames


#humor #humor

I'm English. We're about as tactful as a hot poker up the bum, most of the time.


L.H. Thomson


#funny #giggles #humor #funny

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.


Michael Ondaatje


#love #ondaatje #love






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