523 Quotes About English

Oh my mother tongue, your existence in my life has been colonized by the imperialist.Born with an Arabic tongue but raised to only understand in the English language.

Bexhill is only about fifty miles from Gatwick in that part of England so English it is almost something else, unnameable. The names reek of candyfloss and old battles.Brighton, Hastings.

The English language is my bitch. I like to bend it over the table and have my way with it.

You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.

The Hatter's remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. "I don't quite understand you," she said, as politely as she could.

I needed words, lots of words to think about while I was going about the rest of the day. And I didn't want anything affected. I wanted nothing to do with those Romance languages. I wanted clipped words, full of common sense. Thoughts to wear beneath my thoughts. Allow, express, oath, vow, dismay, matter, splash, mollify. I liked those words. I liked saying them. I still do.

Love is divisible in three parts. Hope a parte ante, and hope a parte post: that is, in plain English, that hope which is past, and that hope which is to come.- DON SANTO

It wasn’t story (good or bad) that pulled me in; it was English itself, the way it felt in my braces-caged mouth and rattled around my adolescent head.

शासनाच्या हाती राक्षसी सत्ता असते. तीच गोष्ट शिकल्या-सुधारल्या मंडळींची. आपल्या वाढत्या सुखसोयी, चोचले पुरविण्यासाठी ते प्रसंगी निसर्गावर, त्यात राहणारा कडेकपारीतील अडाणी जनतेच्या अन्नावर उठतात. आपल्या लुटीला लूट न म्हणता 'विकास', 'प्रगती' अशी गोंडस नावे देतात. गुन्हेगारीला तत्वज्ञानाचा आधार देतात. सारे एक होतात.