My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
“The county had reduced high-school transportation, eliminated all middle school sports, and was seeking $77 million more from the state for the… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I suggested to them also the great desirability of a general knowledge on the Island of the English language. They are under… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It’s good enough for one word,” said Hunter. “Socialism.” Serge pounded the bar with his fist. “Fuck socialism.” “Don’t say that!” Hunter… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“On various occasions, especially in trying to think of western American history in the context of the worldwide history of colonialism, it… — Patricia Nelson Limerick Copy Share Image
“One of the undoubted virtues of English is that it is a fluid and democratic language in which meanings shift and change… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the city of London was initially named for ravens or a raven-deity. According to the Oxford Companion to… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the… — Wally Amos Copy Share Image
England are still the only difference in the world was the first British Empire were slaves of the slaves of today's English… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church Copy Share Image
Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.” — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up… — Julie James Copy Share Image
We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen did not become one of the most renowned authors in the English language by having her characters dye their armpit… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
