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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

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. — C.P. Snow

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

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. — Peter Prasad

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

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. — Evelyn Waugh

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

I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general. — Christopher Moore

I wasn't particularly good at school so always found essay writing hard, so I didn't do that well at English or history, even though I enjoyed it. — Ruby Bentall