English Language Quotes
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English Language Quotes & Sayings
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
— John Clayton
Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
— F. Donald Logan
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
— Amish Tripathi
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.
— Ashlan Thomas
English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots.
— Salman Rushdie
If only ... the saddest words in the English language.
— Kristan Higgins
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
— Jim Morrison
To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
— Jack Lynch
I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.
— C.M. Stunich
Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.
— M.F. Moonzajer
It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.
— Charlene Vermeulen
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
— Raymond Williams
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
— Paul Krassner
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.
— Salvador De Madariaga
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
— Billy Sunday
These days we are experiencing an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon bias against foreign terms.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
— Maya Angelou
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
— Timothy Leary
There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh!
— Neetu Sugandh
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[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'.
— Roberta Pearce
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
— Vaclav Havel
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own.
— Bernard Cornwell
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
— Jimmy Breslin
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
— Christopher Moore
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
— Jack Prelutsky
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
— Robert Benchley
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
— Shuji Nakamura
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
— Joseph Conrad
English, our common language, binds our diverse people.
— S.I. Hayakawa
I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
— Jane Green
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
— Robert Burchfield
English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.
— Anthony Burgess
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
— David Bezmozgis
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
— Vikas Swarup
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
— Ernest Istook
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and
— Christine Pope
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.
— Rory Dunlop
Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language
— Clotye Murdock Larsson
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
— Henry David Thoreau
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
English is now ours. We have colonized it, too.
— Gemino Abad
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.
— Erma Bombeck
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
— Christopher Buckley
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
— Stephen Fry
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
— Robert Aickman
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.
— Raj Thackeray
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
— Carrie Fisher
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
— Roald Hoffmann
Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
— Aravind Adiga
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
— Edward Gibbon
I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
— Odette Annable
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'
— John Oliver
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
— Frank Church
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
— Christopher Walken
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
— Robert E.Lee
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti
Five of the most exciting words in the English language: "What shall I read next?
— Jason Erik Lundberg
This is the first time I will tell my story in English, a language still new to me. The journey to this moment has been a long one.
— Hyeonseo Lee
