Cautious Quote by Wilkie Collins

“Show me the person who invented English and then from there you can start judging my intellect by it.”

— Evans Biya

“Why are there so many words that sound exactly the same, only one of them is right and one of them is wrong, and…

— Mira Grant

“The moment one learns English, complications set in.”

— Felipe Alfau

“I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else…

— V.S. Carnes

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

“You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.”

— Robert Aickman

“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

— Beryl Markham

“Never mistake arrogance for intellect.”

— D.B. Harrop

“You yourself are English and yet you do not seem to appreciate the quality of the English reaction to a direct question. It is…

— Agatha Christie

“The English language is damned difficult, but it's also damned rich, and so clear and bright that you can search out the darkest places…

— Katherine Mansfield

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”

— Anonymous

“It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time.”

— Anne Shirley