523 Quotes About English

Rajalakshmi looked at the 30 days to speaking Fluent English dully. She wondered if sorrow had as many words and nuances in English or French as it did in her Tamil.

Once upon a time, a human belittled another human who spoke broken English, until the first human discovered English was the second human's third or fourth language, and then the first human felt rather stupid and decided to shut the f*** up.

Most modern translations are total shit—the English language is only deteriorating, after all.

Bret Easton Ellis, taking on the narrative garb of a mass murderer in American Psycho, was, surprisingly, never himself a mass murderer (at least according to a lot of people–I won’t comment on what he sometimes does to an English sentence).

If you have a mind to understand the English comedy, the only way to do this will be for you to go to England, to spend three years in London, to make yourself master of the English tongue, and to frequent the playhouse every night.

The act of order (in a sentence) is also an act of creative limitation

American teachers said I was illiterate, so they put me in ELL classes. Although I spoke English, I did not speak their English.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

لا بد أن أجلس ذات يوم لكي أكتب بحثاً عن العوامل السيكوطقسية الكامنة وراء إنتشار الإنجليز في الأرض وتكوينهم للإمبراطورية.هم كانوا يريدون الخلاص بأية طريقة من جو بلادهم المنحط، ولعلهم ما كانوا يطلقون رصاصة واحدة لو وافق أصحاب القارات المشمسة على منحهم تأشيرة دخول !