Pastoral Resources

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.

Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.