English language Quote by Katherine Mansfield

“English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.”

— Laura Fraser

“it is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.”

— David Grossman

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

— Wilkie Collins

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

— Jack Lynch

“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”

— Anthony Burgess

“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

— James Russell Lowell

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.”

— Mark Edmundson

“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”

— Simon Van Booy

“It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.”

— Washington Irving

“I have great respect for writers who are humble, whose language allows the reader to see the story but doesn't get in the way.…

— Jennifer Haigh