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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
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
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
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[ ... ] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
English literature is a flying fish.
— E. M. Forster
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
My master's degree was in English literature.
— Sylvia Browne
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
— Glen Duncan
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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 naughtwhen 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
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
