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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

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. — Sophie Marceau

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

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. — Mark Twain

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

Yeah, whatever," I said finally, the two most unpoetic words in the English language. — Emma Scott

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

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. — Terry Jones

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

Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it. — Jakub Marian

Love is the most important word in the English language
and the most confusing. — Gary Chapman

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

[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

English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves. — Terry Fallis

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

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. — Jonathan Ames

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield

The four sweetest words in the English language - 'You wore me down.' — Aziz Ansari

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

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere. — Mason Cooley

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

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black

Many people just think they understand English, remember. — Emma Wagner

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. — Pat Conroy

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue. — Eric Alterman

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

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. — Lynn Abbey

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

English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before. — Minae Mizumura

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

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur — Doug Larson

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

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

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point? — Tucker Carlson

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

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English). — Manil Suri

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

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. — Joss Whedon

Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way. — Rod Longuestte

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in? — Kingsley Amis

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — John Templeton