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)
“The mob has many heads but no brains.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“What presence must not know,
From where you do remain let paper show.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)