English

Famous quotes containing the word english:

“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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

“The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)