English language Quote by Christopher Buckley Download Open image “Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.” — Christopher Buckley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christopher Hitchens English language Essayists Inspirational Language Life Love
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language. — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
“Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".” — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster? — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the… — Gary Anderson Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
