Cornwall Quote by Henry Jenner

Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no…

— Henry Jenner

The English language is nobody's special property.

— Derek Walcott

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

— Henry Jenner

There is no linguistic war in Montreal.

— Pierre Moreau

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

— William Faulkner

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

— Garry Hynes

As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our…

— Peter Hitchens

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

— William Dean Howells

Nobody ever lived in the past.

— David McCullough

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

— Henry David Thoreau