Famous quotes containing the words english language, english, language and/or paper:
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
“The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”
—Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)
“It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)