English Language Private

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

    “The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”
    —Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “Though language forms the preacher,
    ‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
    —Eliza Cook (1818–1889)

    “[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other—that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)