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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,… — Mark Twain
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the… — Mark Twain
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the… — Evelyn Waugh
The English language is nobody's special property. — Derek Walcott
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that… — Edward Said
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.… — Noam Chomsky
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good… — Lord Byron
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up… — Karl Marx
The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and… — Cyril Connolly
Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have… — Martin O'Malley
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving… — Florence Nightingale
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool… — Raymond Chandler
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Mark Twain
I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the… — Albert Einstein
I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English. — Yiyun Li
It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe. — Alan Pardew
It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. — Alan Pardew
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti

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