Famous Quotes
240 Quotations with English.
- 21. Ambrose Bierce: OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had b ...
- 22. Ambrose Bierce: PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an ...
- 23. Ambrose Bierce: ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war -- ...
- 24. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 25. Ambrose Bierce: TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in h ...
- 26. Ambrose Bierce: UNCTION, n. An oiling, or greasing. The rite of extreme unction consists in touc ...
- 27. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...
- 28. General Robert E. Lee: Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty ...
- 29. Quentin Crisp: The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
- 30. Ferguson: If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.
- 31. H. L. Mencken: Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- 32. Jorge Luis Borges: My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding in ...
- 33. W. Somerset Maugham: American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women ...
- 34. P.D. James: It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in ...
- 35. Oscar Wilde: The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pu ...
- 36. Hermione Gingold: Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
- 37. Ed Moran: CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spani ...
- 38. Annie Dillard: There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and deli ...
- 39. Tommy Lasorda: All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was mi ...
- 40. P. D. James: It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in ...