English Language Private

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

    “The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
    —18th-century English proverb.

    “One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.”
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    “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)