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Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667? October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms? such as Lemuel... Jonathan Swift
Pat Conroy quote: "The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen,..."
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. Pat Conroy
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes. W. H. Auden
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. Rick Mercer
What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Stephen Greenblatt
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. Stephen Greenblatt
Maxim Gorky quote: "The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not..."
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. Maxim Gorky
Dan Fogelberg quote: "I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the..."
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language. Dan Fogelberg
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. Mike Fitzpatrick
Billy Sunday quote: "When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it."
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. Billy Sunday
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language. John Strachan
John Hume quote: "If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian..."
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. John Hume
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. John McCarthy
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. Michael Cunningham
It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. A. E. van Vogt

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