English

English may refer to something of, from, or related to England, especially:

  • The English language
    • English studies, the study of English language and literature, often as a school subject
    • English grammar
  • The English people

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Famous quotes containing the word english:

    “Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
    —18th-century English proverb.

    “When a Jamaican is born of a black woman and some English or Scotsman, the black mother is literally and figuratively kept out of sight as far as possible, but no one is allowed to forget that white father, however questionable the circumstances of birth.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)