Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.