Brilliant English Sayings

#1. George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.

Nick Woodman

#4. I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

Molly Crabapple

#5. In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

W. H. Auden

#6. Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend

#7. Just make a mark and see where it takes you

Peter H. Reynolds

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

Russell Baker

#9. I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

Romola Garai

#10. My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.

Ajay Mehta

#11. I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay

Bob Dylan

#13. Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

Anthony Hecht

#14. Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

Gloria Steinem

#15. To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams

Rob Shepherd

#16. The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

Dave Kellett

#17. Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

Victoria Aveyard