English Quotes

Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

My English is very bad.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

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

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.