Famous quotes containing the words standard english, speak, standard and/or english:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He cannot flatter, he,
An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!
And they will take it, so; if not, he’s plain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“He that would the daughter win
Must with the mother first begin.”
—17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)