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English Quotes by Mark Twain
- 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,…
- 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…
- The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner…
- A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
- I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
- I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
- By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the…
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- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- 'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my… — Christian Bale
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words,… — Drew Barrymore
- I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
- I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley