Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

Rudyard Kipling

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

Jose Ortega y Gasset

To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.

Adam Ereli

And such remarks, wherever they come from, are insulting and offensive to all of us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

Epictetus

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

Carly Fiorina

Donald Trump you're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.

Rachel Caine

Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Burt Feintuch

I wrote for that back in the mid-1980s. Thats what got me thinking New England should have something like that.

Andy Robinson

Josh has had a scan and been reviewed by the England medical team.

Corey Dillon

I think it's a great move for me, a great move for the organization, ... I'm just happy to be a New England Patriot.

Edmund White

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

Sven Eriksson

He is still an important part of this England squad.

Gordon Taylor

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

Frankie Hejduk

I thought we were the aggressors most of the game. But that's New England. They're a good team. Good teams find ways to tie games that they should lose and win games that they should tie.

Sepp Blatter

I think the national teams of Holland and England have reason to be worried. Even Italy might not get a place.

Gordon Taylor

I think the general feeling in England will be one that the sanction is far too lenient, and I would be one of those who thinks that way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.