English Language Private

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

    “Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)