Proper English Quotes: top 26 famous quotes about Proper English

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they can't speak proper English, — Martin Hawks

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming. — Nhat Hanh

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. — Roy Bennett

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ... — George Bernard Shaw

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory. — Anne Spollen

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does. — W. H. Auden

A painless lesson is one without any meaning, one who does not sacrifice anything cannot achieve anything. — Hiromu Arakawa

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on — Lauren Graham

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. — Benjamin Disraeli

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. — Josh Lanyon

I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu ... she bid me a don't. — Rodney Dangerfield

A great life starts within — Malka Maxwell

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care. — Concha Buika

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language. — Hilaire Belloc

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.' — Mary Gaitskill

I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions. — Craig McDean

The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. — Vinnie Jones

We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time. — Jermaine Stewart

You cannot sing African music in proper English — Fela Kuti

No group can be truly suppressed until its members are trained and convinced to suppress one another. — Jenny Nordberg

Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high. — Li Keqiang

If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain. — Theresa May

With ills unending strives the putter off. — Epictetus

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over ... and you are only 25. — Tamra Davis

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue. — Jim Fowler