The English Language Quotes
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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
— John Clayton
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.
— Mark Forsyth
If only ... the saddest words in the English language.
— Kristan Higgins
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
— Oscar Wilde
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
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
— Erez Lieberman Aiden
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
— Tonya Hurley
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
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
— Charles Spurgeon
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
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
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
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
Don't be ridiculous. Only one of the most condescending phrases in the English language ... and
— Christine Pope
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[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'.
— Roberta Pearce
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
— Robert Burchfield
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
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
— Shuji Nakamura
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
— Patricia Riggen
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Frank Bough
The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it.
— Howard Tomb
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.
— Henry Ford
Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things.
— Alex Shvartsman
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
— Edwin Newman
Correct English is the slang of prigs ...
— George Eliot
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
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
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
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
— John Templeton
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
— Christopher Buckley
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
— Frank Church
I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line.
— Jeffrey Steingarten
Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language
— Clotye Murdock Larsson
I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.
— Erma Bombeck
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
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
— Vaclav Havel
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. — Umberto Eco
When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.
— David Bezmozgis
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
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.
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
— Vikas Swarup
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.
— Timothy Leary
I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
— Jane Green
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
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
— Robert Benchley
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
— Edward Gibbon
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
