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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, Miltonic, Johnsonian, Dickensian and American. Military, naval, legal, corporate, criminal, jazz, rap and ghetto discourses are mingled at every turn. The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to... Stephen Fry
I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool. John Updike
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? George Orwell
Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. Terry Jones
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. John McGahern
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. Daniel Day-Lewis
Should, is the worst wordin the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they'renot, they're disappointed. Candace Bushnell
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years. Doug Coupland
He wished he knew what to say to make her feel better, but the truth was, he didn’t feel all that great himself and he didn’t know if there were even any words in the English language to take away this kind of stunning shock, this understanding that the world isn’t the place you thought it was. Jodi Picoult
Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”? Florence King
William Shakespeare quote: "the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He..."
the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national William Shakespeare
E. M. Forster quote: "They had nothing in common but the English language."
They had nothing in common but the English language. E. M. Forster
Jodi Picoult quote: "In the English language there are orphans and widows, but..."
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. Jodi Picoult
Woody Allen quote: "The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I..."
The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'". Woody Allen

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