Famous quotes containing the words english proverb., english proverb and/or english:
“The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
—17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)
“Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert’s Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)