Language Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Professor Henry Higgins: There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!”

— Alan Jay Lerner

“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Whatever mischief you're up to, I'll be there for it. Besides, someone must ensure that you behave like a lady." I skittered to a…

— Susan Dennard

“HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I snorted. ‘For a great sultan who is lord and ruler of all that he surveys, his English is lamentably poor. He can’t even…

— Matthew Reilly

“It sounded wrong rolling off his tongue, but still elegant, somehow. Like a British person cussing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I told them this was their language, this English, this most marvellous and expressive cloak of meaning and imagination. This great, exclamatory, illuminating song,…

— A.A. Gill

“She was playing with semantics. I felt certain that she understood the word “tip” in English. She enjoyed pretending that she thought I wanted…

— Caroline Blackwood

“She shook her head. “I cannot. It wouldn’t be proper.” A muscle worked in his jaw, but he kept his voice at a low…

— Jennifer Haymore

“...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk…

— Robert K. Tanenbaum

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne