Non English Quotes: top 42 famous quotes about Non English

Non English Quotes & Sayings

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Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

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

I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white. — G. Willow Wilson

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it. — Louis Menand

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Language is the key to the heart of people. — Ahmed Deedat

English is my second language. Laughter is my first. — Paul Krassner

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

What I like about Sapphics is the music of a non-iambic metric in English. — Marilyn Hacker

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench

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

A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH. — Elizabeth Wein

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you! — Michael Ondaatje

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other? — Mary Rose O'Reilley

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

Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015]. — Michael Gordin

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats — Honore De Balzac

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego. — Charisma Carpenter

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another. — Aleister Crowley

I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful. — Anne Rice

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. — William Bennett

English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world. — M.F. Moonzajer

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first. — Prince Royce

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

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.

My master's degree was in English literature. — Sylvia Browne

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. — Olivia Hussey

Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only. — Geraldine Brooks

His third-floor bedroom wasn't an all-American room. It was an all-English room, lacking only a three-pronged outlet and a draft. — Peter Smith

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

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

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

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

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it. — Adam Cooper

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American. — James Hunter

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

I was an English major. — Jenna Bush