Lying Quote by Henry Crew

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed…

— Robert Fitzgerald

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

“Paradoxically, our imperial global Anglo-American language is dull with the glitter of its own decay. In response, the new meta- physical poet might consider…

— Peter Abbs

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“If one could read fluently, confidently, in every known language, one would have no need of translators or translations; one could read Homer on…

— Abraham Verghese

“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a little care,…

— Joseph Devlin

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that…

— John James Audubon

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell

“I never studied linguistics, Yet I became a linguistic enigma. The sun never studied nuclear fusion, Yet it is our planet's nuclear messiah.”

— Abhijit Naskar

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries…

— Zadie Smith