Official English

Famous quotes containing the words official and/or english:

    “All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)