English Language Quotes

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

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

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

I was also in love with the English language.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

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

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

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

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.

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.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish?

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!

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.