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Quote Left Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) Quote Right
Quote Left 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? Quote Right
Quote Left In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. Quote Right
Quote Left The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Quote Right
Quote Left He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended. Quote Right
Quote Left If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. Quote Right
Quote Left My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! Quote Right
Quote Left My opposition To Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. Quote Right
Quote Left Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Quote Right
Quote Left The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. Quote Right
Quote Left Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. Quote Right
Quote Left If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Quote Right
Quote Left Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. Quote Right
Quote Left The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.' by Quote Right
Quote Left The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.' Quote Right
Quote Left The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed." Quote Right
Quote Left Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less. Quote Right
Quote Left The two most beautiful words in the English language are check enclosed. Quote Right
Quote Left Eskimo's have 49 words in their language to define snow because they have so much of it. In the english language, there are more then 50 ways to define a moron... Quote Right
Quote Left When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. Quote Right
Quote Left A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. Quote Right
Quote Left Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. Quote Right
Quote Left 'Reality' is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes2. Quote Right
Quote Left When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. Quote Right
Quote Left The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Quote Right
Quote Left The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Quote Right
Quote Left Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Quote Right

Member Quotes About English Language

Quote Left When the Beauty of English Language is memorized; Unmemorized Melody is Created. Quote Right
Quote Left English language is only a means of communication, not necessarily a measure of intelligence. Language is arbitrary. Quote Right
Quote Left 'I'm not sure'... The three next best words to 'I don't know', in the English language! Quote Right
Quote Left The English language does not exist. Quote Right

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