Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system? — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I did modern English and American literature at Kent University, with no Chaucer and no Middle English: a perfect course. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to… — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER,… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“What follows is the first in a collection of tales, primarily of one tixie family, who recorded their exploits more than two… — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Preface WITH THE ADVENT OF multiple modern English translations of the Bible being published over the last fifty years, Christians have come… — Chaim Bentorah Copy Share Image
“White encouraged Updike’s equally scrupulous commitment. They bonded over dashes, colons, and commas—most amazingly in an exchange of letters in the last… — Adam Begley Copy Share Image
“We don't use the words begetting or begotten much in modern English, but everyone still knows what they mean. To beget is… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always applied the same attitude to things, an impulsive, instinctive reaction. It's hard to describe, but I often get a sense… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
“Modern Our Father, who is in heaven, blessed be your name. Give us our daily bread today. All three of these languages… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is as difficult to suppose a person intending to write a modern English, as to suppose him writing an ancient English,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The ruinous deeds of the ravaging foe (Beowulf) The best-known long text in Old English is the epic poem Beowulf. Beowulf himself… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“what of the Old Testament? This was written in Hebrew except for portions of the Book of Daniel and the Book of… — Chaim Bentorah Copy Share Image
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