Any quotations about english??

Question

do u know some quotations about english language..... if yes... pls tell it to me.... thanks.... =]

Answer 1

"English as she is Spoke"  Title of Portugese-English conversational guide  A W Tuer      "That typical English characteristic for which their is no English name"  Sir Frank Adcock  (esprit de corps)

Answer 2

Here are a few, some direct, some vague, but hopefully you'll find at least some of them helpful.

The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant.  If omitted in one place, they turn up in another.  When a Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."  ~Author Unknown

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.  ~Author Unknown

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.  ~Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.  ~Jane Wagner

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.  ~Quentin Crisp

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.  ~Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 13 February 1959

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.  ~Franklin P. Jones

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.  ~Abigail Adams

The English language is nobody's special property.  It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.  ~Derek Walcott

Our language is funny - a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.  ~J. Gustav White

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.  There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.  ~Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

We (England) have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Canterville Ghost, 1882

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

'Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English

George Bernard Shaw (Also credited to Winston Churchill)

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

John Hume

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)