This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in…

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away,…

— Emo Philips

Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got…

— Philip Roth

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English…

— Winston Churchill

“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the…

— Gary Anderson

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she…

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is…

— Jiro Adachi

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you…

— Brunonia Barry

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

— Henry Ford

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually…

— Emma Chase