(311 quotes found)
“Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.”
C.S. Lewis
“If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.”
George Orwell
“Even though we're all speaking American English, there are individual differences. The region you grew up in affects how you perceive it.”
Brianna Conrey
“Welcome to America ..... Now speak English”
Justine Vogt
“if you have nothing substantial to say; speak in English”
taalib
“I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
James Matthew Barrie
“So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.”
Matt Maldre
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The English Language is but a Delilah, I am but her Samson. Despite how well she and other men may be acquainted, I am subject to loving her. As Delilah shed away the very locks of Samson's head, so the English Language cuts away my breath with her wiles. Weak I may be as she trim away my air, but strengthened I stand when return, does my hair.”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Lorries overtaking eachother on the motorway is like fat people having sex, yeah they get there eventually but what's the point?”
Daniel Heath
