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I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature. — Samuel Alito

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. — Richard Dawkins

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek. — R. Curtis Venture

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and ... ants. I can understand ants. — A.S. Byatt

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work. — Natalie Massenet

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one. — W. Somerset Maugham

Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German. — E. M. Forster

You've got something that I don't have. Innocence. Ur eyes express it, & I can read everything in them". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that. — JJ Feild

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

In my mind's eye — William Shakespeare

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. — Pat Conroy

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 — William Shakespeare

Language is the key to the heart of people. — Ahmed Deedat

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You are like the winged goddess from Greek mythology. As beautiful and soaring like an angel as her". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion: — Olga Goa

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

[ ... ] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds. — Vladimir Nabokov

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. — Rita Mae Brown

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. — Joan Collins

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. — Eileen Myles

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. — John Donne

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature. — James Delingpole

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. — Marilyn Butler

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth. — James Connolly

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. — Azar Nafisi

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

I give pleasure to you. Do not interfere..." #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. — Henry Louis Gates

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,
As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Although I think the word "pleasure" is unknown to you. More precisely, its practical meaning". #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea. — Sean O'Casey

Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
when such ill-dealing must be seen in thought. — William Shakespeare

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. — Rachel Weisz

Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. — Kshitij Shringi

Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature. — Oscar Wilde

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought. — Harper Lee

I cannot perceive that you're still a girl. Ur kisses don't seem so innocent. They just drive me crazy!" #MilanoVeneziani. #ItalianPassion — Olga Goa

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times. — Jo Walton

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — W.S. Merwin

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Writing poetry is a state of free float — Margaret Atwood

English literature is a flying fish. — E. M. Forster

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. — Sefi Atta

Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost — Albert Jay Nock

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go. — Alison Owen

The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language. — Anurag Shourie

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. — Pat Conroy

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way. — Margaret Atwood