The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The time is ripe for young Indian authors writing in the English language.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
“I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. — Zoe Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“I knew global warming was killing polar bears, the Chinese population blew past one billion several years ago, and rhythms was the… — Camille Pagán Copy Share Image
Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“Nouns can act like adjectives (“chocolate cake”); adjectives can act like nouns (“grammarians are the damned”); verbs can look like verbs (“she’s… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“To Michael Soule's three C's-cores, carnivores, and corridors-Foreman added "three W's: wilderness, wildways, and my favorite word in the English language, wildeor,… — Mary Ellen Hannibal Copy Share Image
“The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship - between languages and… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Murder: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as “the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially… — Deborah Spungen Copy Share Image
“Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not the exclusive… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
“Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The translators of the King James Version chose to render parakletos with the English word “Comforter” because at that time the English… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I believe it is essential to have English as the official language of our National Government, for the English language is the… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The four cruellest words in the English language are "I told you so.” — Lord Salisbury Copy Share Image
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
