Excuse Quote by Keith Senior

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to…

— James Goldman

I've learned to say Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke in 6 languages.

— Nikhil Saluja

“The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we…

— Stephen Fry

“...apparently "London" gave out my address! that's what they're saying...not just London, though! Brazzaville, too!...and said that I'm a dirty pornographer...a letch besides being…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

— Manfred von Richthofen

“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

I think Polish jokes come from jealousy.

— Chuck Woolery

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

— Joe Abercrombie

“Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their…

— Mark Twain

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser

“Chust a little farther.   Keep your shoes on.” Peter whispered to me.   “Where does he get this stuff, anyway?   Isn’t it…

— Elle Casey