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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En... 
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. 
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products 
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed t... 
The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the litera... 
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... 
The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are dr... 
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ... 
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. 
The cliche is dead poetry. 
If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend. 
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in... 
There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You... 
One of the best characters in English literature. 
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, En... 
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. 
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th... 
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously,... 
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. 
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. 
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue 
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest lan... 
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh... 
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing wh... 
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be
brought into mutual dependence by the su... 
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range ... 
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of... 
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking child... 
As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h... 
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ... 
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous prece... 
There is no myth relative to the manners and customs of the English that in my experience is more te... 
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ... 
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by ... 
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. 
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club,... 
Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... 
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar... 
President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical. 
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. 
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ... 
The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, ... 
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. 
Red lips are not so red/ As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. 
English is not my first language. 
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned langua... 
If only…the saddest words in the English language. 
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the America... 
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates... 
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the Engl... 
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its h... 
Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms. 
They had nothing in common but the English language. 
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imm... 
My master's degree was in English literature. 
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very... 
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ... 
China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. An... 
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned... 
Immigration must be halted in the short-term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many ca... 
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in real... 
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. 
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being awa... 
"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee;
Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee." 
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for f... 
Not by appointment do we meet delight
Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;
But round some cor... 
There's no dearth of kindness
In the world of ours;
Only in our blindness
We gather thor... 
And then came the war. That certainly raised the pressure from the personal front. It also brought r... 
Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lam... 
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets... 
I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will... 
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study t... 
You can't make wrong work. 
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. 
For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure... 
What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adver... 
The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that a... 
At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial ... 
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. 
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups... 
A house is not a home until it has a dog. 
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, ...