Intellect Quote by Oscar Wilde

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

— George Bernard Shaw

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in…

— Arthur Helps

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love…

— Kory Stamper

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

— Agnes Repplier

“The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to…

— Tim Cameron

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

— William Butler Yeats

“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A…

— Rashid Khalidi

But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

— Walter Bagehot

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there…

— George Orwell

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

— William Butler Yeats

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question.…

— Heinrich Heine