The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English…

“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

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

“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

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

— Henry Ford

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

— Brunonia Barry

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

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

“ 'Hubba-Hubba' never slips out," Zeke said. "You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable use of…

— Sarah Beth Durst

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need…

— Trevor Nunn