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Language Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
- I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in…
- We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
- After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
- Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of…
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man…
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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