Business Quote by Leila Aboulela

“He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their…

— Terry Pratchett

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”

— E.M. Forster

“He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their…

— Agatha Christie

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell

“Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbours, his church, his priest, his town, his…

— John Fante

“He studied diligently, unsparingly, and for that they respected him, but no one liked him”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run…

— Salman Rushdie

“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking”

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

“Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned…

— Paul Bowles

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

— James Russell Lowell