523 Quotes About English

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

English is a language, not a measure of intelligence. (Howard Gardner would argue the otherwise.) Filipino/Tagalog is a language, not a measure of patriotism.

Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about it makes anybody have sense.

...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

A traditional Englishman drinks tea to the point where his blood has long-since been replaced with an infusion of Ceylon, Assam, and Darjeeling.

If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole.

Let's create a new 'International Language'! According to me, an International Language will be such a new kind of language that will be created by the presence and consent of the representatives of all the countries in the world. This new language will contain utterly new alphabets, fresh grammatical rules, original or selective vocabulary from all the current languages in the world etc.