523 Quotes About English

The English language is somewhat ‘GLOBAL’ or widespread because it has reached many nations but it is not truly an ‘INTERNATIONAL’ language! Actually, it will be international when all the countries accept it or if the words from all the existing languages are added to it or if an entirely new language is created with the presence of words, grammar etc. from all the current languages in the world!

ولن أَكْسِبُ شَيئًا إذا خَسِرتُ نَفْسيAnd i will gain nothing if i lose myself

A Hopi Indian named Sun Chief said:I had learned many English words and could recite part of the Ten Commandments. I knew how to sleep on a bad, pray to Jesus, comb my hair, eat with a knife and fork, and use a toilet. . . . I had also learned that a person thinks with his head instead of his heart.

The word pain does too much work, you know? It’s like sorry, which really shouldn’t have to carry both “I sympathize” and “this is all my fault.

With the English, nothing could save him from being the eternal outsider, not even love.

What he must have suffered, in his lovely English privacy.

Any language with a literary tradition and extensive literacy will be affected by that literature.

Let our voices be heard in all of our languages. Not just English. I am an American and I speak Spanish and English.

English, unlike Arabic, was not a poetic language. English had been cobbled together by too many unknown parents, too many unsure users. English lacked the single word that differentiated an attacking lion from one at rest. Nor did English have the capacity to relay the succinct, linguistic separation of a maternal uncle from a paternal one. English was not a thoughtful language.