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Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
— F. Donald Logan
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
— Anton Walbrook
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
He was hounded by the shade of his brother, demanding terribly the price of blood... William of Malmesbury, the History of the English Kings.
— Patricia Bracewell
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
— George Orwell
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
Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.
— Meg Rosoff
The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else.
— Michael Socha
British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.
— Tom Turner
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
— George Eliot
I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.
— Phil Klay
English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off ... Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.
— Dave Barry
Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I've ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend.
— Joey Barton
The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.
— Michael Ondaatje
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
— Ian Harding
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
— Candace Camp
Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke
— P. J. O'Rourke
I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.
— Joe Jamail
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
— Charlie Cox
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
— Martha Grimes
Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
— Flea
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
— Margaret Halsey