Modern English Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

• I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
• If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Ronald Sydney Nyholm
• If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well… — Rudolf Flesch
• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take… — George Orwell
• I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago,… — Robert Burchfield
• English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the… — James Fenton
• Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without… — Terry Pratchett
• You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
• At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make… — Pete Townshend
• The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… — C.S. Lewis
• At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of… — Bill Bryson

Who Wrote These Modern English Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Modern English Quotes as follows:

• 1 Modern English Quote by Geraldine Brooks
• 1 Modern English Quote by Ronald Sydney Nyholm
• 1 Modern English Quote by Rudolf Flesch
• 1 Modern English Quote by George Orwell
• 1 Modern English Quote by Robert Burchfield
• 1 Modern English Quote by James Fenton
• 1 Modern English Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Modern English Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Modern English Quote by Wilbur Smith
• 1 Modern English Quote by Pete Townshend
• 1 Modern English Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Modern English Quote by Bill Bryson