Famous quotes containing the words formal, english and/or expressions:
“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.”
—Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825)