My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.