English Language Quotes - Page 4

• Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Growing Up, Knowing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.34, BookBaby

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• The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Gentleman, Language

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• Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

  E. M. Delafield

  Eton, Language, Educated

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• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a
  failure, and then fail all the more completely because he
  drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the
  English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because
  our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language
  makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

  George Orwell

  Men, Ugly, May

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

  George Will

  Law, Firsts, Constitution

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• I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

  Sally Potter

  Beautiful, Thinking, Language

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• Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Taught, Language

  "Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

  George Orwell

  People, Matter, Way

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

  Andy Rooney

  Numbers, Nuance, Language

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.110, PublicAffairs

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• If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

  Chath Piersath

  Language, Born, Fluent

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  Richard Lederer

  Latin, Vocabulary, Way

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• 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

  Writing, Way, Language

  Hilaire Belloc (1967). “On”

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• One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Witty, Writing, Men

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• If only…the saddest words in the English language.

  Kristan Higgins

  Language, Saddest, Ifs

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• Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Doe, Cinema, World

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• English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

  Winston Churchill

  Inheritance, Literature, Treasure

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• He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Language, Knows

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• The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Language, Englishmen

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Race, India

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.74, Penguin Books India

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• I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.

  Steve King

  Technology, Champion, Language

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and communities - because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Achievement, Community, Ladders

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

  Judy Woodruff

  Language, Contentious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

  Erich Fromm

  Appreciate, Language, Clarity

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Retirement, Philosophy, Backyards

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

  Wally Amos

  Understanding, Language, Computer

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