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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing poetry is a state of free float — Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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