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Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
— Matthew Pearl
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.
— Thomm Quackenbush
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
— Enrique Iglesias
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
This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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 write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.
— William Monahan
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
— Tonya Hurley
Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.
— Mark Forsyth
I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.
— Charlene Vermeulen
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
— Charles Spurgeon
But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth.
— Marisha Pessl
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 English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
— Derek Walcott
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
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
— Billy Collins
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Thaumatomane: a person possessed of a passion for magic and wonders, Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
— Susanna Clarke
The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.
— Wendy Alexander
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
— Dave Kellett
I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.
— Bruno Zheng Wu
The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the darkest places with it.
— Katherine Mansfield
We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.
— Anthony Marra
However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Just because you and your partner both speak English doesn't necessarily mean you speak the same language.
— Michael Makai
He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.
— Lynsey Addario
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
— Arthur Levitt Jr
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
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
— John Oliver
Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up.
— S.L. Jennings
What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?"Here's my response:
Unfair. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that?
— Kristan Higgins
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)
— Jeff Jarvis
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
— Andy Rooney
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
— Shuji Nakamura
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'.
— Roberta Pearce
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 canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things.
— Alex Shvartsman
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
— Vaclav Havel
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
— Christopher Moore
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
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
— Robert E.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
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.
— Corin Tucker
No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And
— Robert Hartwell Fiske
The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
— Kate Christensen
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.
— Neale Donald Walsch
I had to settle for two of the most inadequate words in the English language, words to pale to express what I needed to say. Thank you.
— Lilith Saintcrow
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
— Alan Siegel
There are many words in the English language that you never want to hear you father say. Enema. Orgasm. Disappointed.
— Lauren Oliver
The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
— Bernard Goldberg
We can't restructure our society without restructuring the English language.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.
— Shakuntala Devi
Correct English is the slang of prigs ...
— George Eliot
