Famous quotes containing the words english language, english, language and/or private:
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.”
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
“The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)