Best English Language Sayings

251 English Language quotes by 218 unique authors

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. — Raymond Williams
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner… — Laura Bush
It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the… — Michel Hazanavicius
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue… — Dick Schaap
I was also in love with the English language. — Dick Schaap
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write,… — A A Milne
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than… — A. E. van Vogt
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier,… — Mary Balogh
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. — Dan Fogelberg
Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language. — Wally Amos
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the… — Bobby Knight
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to… — Unknown Author
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of… — Gordon Getty
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English… — Hunter S. Thompson
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. — Edward R. Murrow
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary — Dave Kellett
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus. — Arthur Levitt Jr
Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.) — Jeff Jarvis
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is… — Paul Rusesabagina
It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the… — Minette Walters

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