Children Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes, and he…

— Richard Llewellyn

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how…

— Alan Jay Lerner

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

— Alan Jay Lerner

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

— George Bernard Shaw

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect,…

— Russell Baker

If we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be honest about…

— Michael Rosen

If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

The English are the people of consummate cant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson