#english

When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class. ↗

— Victor Salva

#class #could #deal #doing #english

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#die #end #englishmen #fighting #out

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#companions #courage #dead #endurance #englishman

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#death #difficult #endure #englishmen #ever

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#afternoon #background #between #black #breakfast

An English man does not travel to see English men. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#english #man #men #see #travel

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#english #fact #happy #i #into

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. ↗

— Max von Sydow

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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. ↗

— Max von Sydow

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