Quotes about English

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Because of social strictures against even the mildest swearing, America developed a particularly rich crop of euphemisti — Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean. — Rae Armantrout
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their lan — Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown
There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese. — H.L. Mencken
As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, an — J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man
Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish? — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much m — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously d — Ann Medlock
English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives address — Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English — James Rozoff
He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters w — Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive conce — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blos — Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos
Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. — John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'. — Austin Grossman, You
The English language is simply not logical. It is strong, free, and beautiful. — Edward Nelson Teall
And yet, as you all know, joining humanity is never a simple matter. By beginning to live the same temporality as Wester — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
Life is a tiring business indeed.Soy sauce runs out. Milk runs out. Dishwashing detergent runs out. Lancôme lipsticks—I — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made — Sara Nović, Girl at War
The standard modern measurement for inebriation is the Ose system. This has been considerably developed over the years, — Mark Forsyth, The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language