English Language Private

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

    “A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.”
    —Eighteenth-century English proverb. Collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

    “the language obscene

    An engine, an engine
    Chuffing me off like a Jew.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “Denouement to denouement, he took a personal pride in the
    certain, certain way he lived his own, private life,
    but nevertheless, they shut off his gas; nevertheless,
    the bank foreclosed; nevertheless, the landlord called;
    nevertheless, the radio broke,

    And twelve o’clock arrived just once too often,”
    —Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961)