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251 English Language quotes by 218 unique authors

Verbing weirds language. — Bill Watterson
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in… — Julie James
Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is… — Charles R. Swindoll
Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You don't. In fact,… — Rachel Vincent
Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English… — Karen Marie Moning
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,… — Jared Diamond
...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are… — Donald Miller
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde
Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so… — Lauren DeStefano
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. — Robert A. Heinlein
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it… — Pablo Picasso
The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because… — David Wong
... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes,… — Marisha Pessl
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it. — Sarah Rees Brennan
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.' — John Templeton
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.… — Virginia Woolf
My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language. — Jean Hanff Korelitz
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication,… — Robin Marantz Henig
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books. — Per Petterson
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far… — Louis D. Brandeis
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced… — John Strachan
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. — John Clayton

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