The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us. -John Banville

 

The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?




This quote is just one of 8 total John Banville quotes in our collection. John Banville is known for saying 'The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.' as well as some of the following quotes.

The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.

John Banville

I didn't envy the judges their task this year. Obviously the novel is far from dead.

John Banville

Never Let Me Go.

John Banville

One does try.

John Banville

The public adulation for Saturday was worrying because here was a 9/11 book that everyone was praising to the sky, making into a bestseller, and it was not a good book for McEwan, who is a very, very good writer. But maybe I shouldn't have been so pompous.

John Banville