Funny English Teacher Quotes

#1. I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

Bob Galvin

#2. I didn't understand how funny this play Much Ado About Nothing truly was until I became an English teacher and had to teach it. There is no wittier dialogue anywhere.

Dan Brown

#3. It's wrong to say that animals do not feel what we feel; indeed, they may feel far more than we do and in far different emotional shades.

Brian Doyle

#4. Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. I never imagined that something as solemn and final as death could be this idiotic. It was the keyhole through which I first glimpsed life's madness: the
institutions we believe in will pervert us, our loved ones will fail us, and death is a falling piano.

Anthony Marra

#6. If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

Eric Bogosian

#7. Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Guy Kawasaki

#8. My seven a.m. teacher was from France. And he spoke Frenglish. Sometimes it was funny, but when he announced which chapters we should study and the names came out in English, but the chapter numbers came out in French, I wanted to strangle the sacre bleu out of him.

Lila Felix

#9. To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

Brendan Gill

#10. She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.

Marisha Pessl

#11. When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

John Stuart Mill

#12. You can count on the fingers of one hand the times a B sample has not confirmed the result of the A sample. It's almost always a delaying tactic.

Dick Pound

#13. I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.

Monica Seles

#14. If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled by the knowledge that their nation does not love them.

Jonathan Kozol

#15. I think you made your opinion clear already. Go home, Eden. And don't worry. I won't bother you anymore." He unlaced his arms and turned away to pick up a new log. "But I want you to bother me!

Karen Witemeyer