Language Quote by Bill Bryson

“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“The moment one learns English, complications set in.”

— Felipe Alfau

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

— Edwin Newman

“After all, the English are really too much. One can't live in that constipated fashion forever.”

— Paul Bowles

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

— Wilkie Collins

“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”

— Minae Mizumura

“Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

“Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!”

— Alan Jay Lerner