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HENRY JAMES I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.
BETH REVIS The most beautiful words in the English langauge are 'not guilty'.
MAXIM GORKY The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
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GORE VIDAL The Dollar & English language are one of a kind,while the dollar is the most preferred currency in t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If only…the saddest words in the English language.
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PAT CONROY The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautifu...
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SIMONE WEIL —I probably shouldn’t tell you this, I said.
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EVAN DAUGHERTY Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we...
ELISE BOULDING Siked, a poor misspelling of "psyched", was created by a nation of slack-ass, unintelligent teenager...
MARIE MUHAMMAD The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are dr...
ANTHONY BURGESS English language would become poorer if words like 'apology', 'regret' and 'sorry' are withdrawn fro...
CHANDRABABU V.S. God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to h...
KRISTAN HIGGINS The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
RONALD REAGAN Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.
RENéE AHDIEH When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society f...
JOHN STRACHAN As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our...
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LARRY FLYNT Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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RICHARD LEDERER Is the term 'concerned' a term you are familiar with in the English language?
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LARRY FLYNT Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots ...
ALISON MOYET The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
ERIC CLOSE Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
TONYA HURLEY The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend w...
LARRY FLYNT English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words t...
DR. WILLARD GAYLIN Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language we...
MIKE FITZPATRICK The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only...
EREZ LIEBERMAN AIDEN Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. ...
ELISE VALMORBIDA An English professor announced to the class; "There are two words I don't allow in my class. One is ...
UNKNOWN Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
ED MARKEY So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers h...
DOROTHY PARKER They had nothing in common but the English language.
E.M. FORSTER Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the e...
AMBROSE BIERCE BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the es...
AMBROSE BIERCE Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; p...
LAO TZU Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; p...
LAO-TZU Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating toge...
CHRISTINA ENGELA English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages, but the share of the world'...
DAVID GRADDOL There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more...
KATE MCGAHAN He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly no...
KATE CHRISTENSEN English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a c...
ERNEST ISTOOK Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simp...
LAUREN DESTEFANO Students who are English-language learners, many of them, not all, are likely to score better in mat...
JOEL SHAPIRO We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but cr...
JOHN GREEN My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned langua...
EDWARD GIBBON I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a ki...
DREW BARRYMORE I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with...
ADRIANA BARRAZA I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
PER PETTERSON Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul....
AMIT RAY First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned...
EDWARD GIBBON In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, usi...
KIM EDWARDS I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorot...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was,...
ALAN ARKIN Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down ...
EDDY PETERS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
BILLY SUNDAY The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
JONATHAN CULVER My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."
JAMES CAAN This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
SID ZIFF Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.
TIFFANY WINFREE Check enclosed.
DOROTHY PARKER The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
WILFRID LAURIER In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...
JODI PICOULT Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, b...
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afte...
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DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
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DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
DOROTHY PARKER I hate writing, I love having written.
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