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English Language Quotes

Verbing weirds language.

"Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

The English language is nobody's special property.

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

In English every word can be verbed.

"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.308, Sheba Blake Publishing

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

"Shakespeare and me: Zoe Wanamaker" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 15 (1780) Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods. During an exchange of coarse raillery customary among people travelling upon the Thames, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 26 (1780)

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

"The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.167, Courier Corporation