English Language Private

Famous quotes containing the words english, language and/or private:

“He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“You can’t write about people out of textbooks, and you can’t use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

“Public scandal is what makes the offense; sinning in private is not sinning at all.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)