Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about English. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 English Quotes and Sayings from 96 influential authors, including Edward Sapir,Robert Hartwell Fiske,Marguerite Yourcenar,Margaret Atwood,Mae West, for you to enjoy and share.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. By Edward Sapir World Human Understood Society Live

No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And By Robert Hartwell Fiske English Distress Flogged Today Damsel

Translating is writing. By Marguerite Yourcenar Translating Writing

A language is everything you do. By Margaret Atwood Language

I speak two languages, Body and English. By Mae West Body English Languages Speak

I was also in love with the English language. By Dick Schaap English Language Love

I want to start where language ends. By Antony Gormley Ends Start Language

And yet in Britain, despite the constant buffetings of history, English survived. It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants, should one day become the most important and successful language in the world. By Bill Bryson Britain English History Survived Constant

The only language you need is the language of the heart - love. By Simran Silva Love Heart Language

Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English! By Bruce Willis English Bad Lady Languages Speak

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power. By Maurice Druon Anglo American English British America

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life. By S.i. Hayakawa American English Life Key Full

Our language is the language of Shakespeare, Thompson and Milton, as we sit and croon like bilious pigeons. By George Bernard Shaw Shakespeare Thompson Milton Pigeons Language

I speak the language of television. By Randy Falco Television Speak Language

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. By Aravind Adiga English Speak Things

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways. By Robert Mccrum Language Path Bridge Gulfs Class

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. By Vladimir Nabokov English Russian French Speaks Mind

English is only a weak second language, so that the third languagewhich at the moment is getting the most play, since French is what I speak, read, and hear almost 24/7is trying to take over the no. 2 spot. By Apol Lejano-Massebieau Read French English Language Play

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard toavoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagernessto expand. By Mark Abley Convenient Huge English Modern Languages

Literature shrivels in a universal language, and an uprooted language rots before it dies. And it should be possible to lift the eyes above the cant of the 'language of Shakespeare'... sufficiently to realise the magnitude of the loss to humanity that the world-dominance of any one language now spoken would entail: no language has ever possessed but a small fraction of the varied excellences of human speech, and each language represents a different vision of life ... By J.r.r. Tolkien Language Literature Dies Shrivels Universal

We think in one language and feel in another. By Marty Rubin Language Feel

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. By George Carlin Language Quality Thoughts Ideas Good

Language is the house of Being. By Martin Heidegger Language House

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. By Maurice Merleau Ponty Languages Live Speak Remains

Different languages cut the world into different slices. By Jean Berko Gleason Slices Languages Cut World

Languages are the keys of science. By Jean De La Bruyere Languages Science Keys

Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French. By Christopher Moore French Greek English Italian Fucking

depends on all of the people who use the language. By Philip Hill Depends Language People

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly By Sara Novic English Language Fly Studied Grade

If you don't like a language, you can go write your own. By Helen Dewitt Language Write

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued. By Louise Penny Language Written Valued Vital Hear

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. By P.d. James English World Write Fortunate Richest

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming. By Thomas Mars English Writing Started French Overwhelming

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. By Erik Estrada York Englishspeaking Environment Grew

To the moon and back, English. By Kitty French English Back Moon

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. By William Wiley Image English Languages Terms Confine

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language Mind Conquests Armory Human

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary By Dave Kellett English German Dictionary Carefully Language

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. By Daniel Alarcon English States Language Write Raised

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. By James Joyce English Writing Lives Ingenious Torture

Language is the tool of the tools By Lev S. Vygotsky Language Tool Tools

You can learn English online By Brian Daniel English Online Learn

I was an English major in college! By Maggie Siff English College Major

I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted By Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston English Instinctively Decided Prove Odd

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you. By Saul Bellow Language Spiritual Mansion Live Evict

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else. By William Feather English Command Spoken Written Ranks

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy. By Neil Gaiman English Thomas Hardy Therapy Found

Language is life and a true backbone of any society! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Language Society Life True Backbone

Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles! By Larry Trask English Newcastle Diverged Difficult Subtitles

Love is the universal language. By A.d. Posey Love Language Universal

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish. By Maribel C. Pagan People Gibberish Native Languages Language

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. - DAVE BARRY By Timothy Ferriss Years Foreign Americans Languages Travel

We live at the level of our language. By Ellen Gilchrist Language Live Level

Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn. By Steven Pinker Die Language Speakers Age Children

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. By David Crystal English Spread Feature Makes Compared

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. By Walt Whitman Race English Viewed Freely Dialect

I have a good ear for languages. By Harry Dean Stanton Languages Good Ear

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language. By Suzy Kassem Language Heart Mankind Main Common

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway. By Santosh Kalwar English Matter Write Understood

I speak two languages: English and Sarcasm. By Don Rittner English Sarcasm Languages Speak

If you love language, it will love you back. By John Simon Language Back Love

Language is the best, best toy. By Jerry Holkins Language Toy

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. By Roald Hoffmann English Point Quickly Learned Sixth

Language does our thinking for us. By Kenneth Burke Language Thinking

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, By Yehuda Amichai Learning Soul Inside Foreign Language

Verbing weirds language. By Bill Watterson Verbing Language Weirds

The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I would even say I am deeply puzzled by this trend. I am not certain what the correct answer should be. By Henry Rosovsky English Familiar Question International Research

Language is the archives of history. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Language History Archives

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are. By Nikki Giovanni Storytellers English Loved Human Story

Who are you and how do you speak English? By Mohamed Moshrif English Speak

There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language. By Frantz Fanon Language Extraordinary Power Possession

But if your language is intended to be the medium of an art if you, its user, are an artist and not a reporter, a persuader, a raconteur; if you aren't writing principally to get praise or pay, but wish to avoid the busy avenues of entertainment, to traffic in the tragic maybe, dig down to the deeply serious; then (although there are a few exceptional and contrary cases) you will understand right away how blessed you are by the language you were born with, the language you began to amster in the moment you also started to learn about life, to read the lines on faces, the light in the window which meant milk, the door which deprived you of mother, the half-songs sung by that someone who lonaed you the breast you suckled - the breast you claimed as more than kin. By William H Gass Language Breast User Reporter Persuader

The diversity of language alienates man from man By Saint Augustine Man Diversity Language Alienates

Close the language-door, and open the love-window By Rumi Close Languagedoor Lovewindow Open

A language is a map of our failures By Adrienne Rich Failures Language Map

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages. By F. Sionil Jose English Decades Editor Literary Growth

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons. By Nick Mancuso Helens English Cartoons Catholic Public

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with By Amy Tan Englishes Language Trade Tool Grew

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. By Maya Angelou English Languages Speak Number Beautiful

I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness. By Debasish Mridha Kindness Language Understand

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. By Philip Larkin Language Writer

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. By Richard Lederer Caesar Latin Julius English History

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge. By J.r.r. Tolkien English American Sponge Essentially Wiped

Usage is the best language teacher. By Quintilian Usage Teacher Language

One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed." By Quentin Crisp America Entering Special Beauties Country

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. By Edward Sapir Language Proved English International French

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. By Sonia Johnson Language Symbol Determines Experience Nature

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. By Adam Gopnik Language Breathe Swim

English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots. By Salman Rushdie English Longer Language Roots Grows

I was not born with English in my pocket. By Santosh Kalwar English Pocket Born

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment. By Willard Gaylin Fuse English Bend Distort Purposes

I was an English major. By Jenna Bush English Major

The Dream of a Common Language By Cheryl Strayed Language Dream Common

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. By Steven Pinker World Interested Language Reflects Obsessions

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. By Sophie Marceau English French Language Acting

I learned how to speak English watching television. By Azita Ghanizada English Television Learned Speak Watching

Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage ... By Susanna Clarke English Launguage Demomstrates Sad Poverty

What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymoogy: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction. The clash of these elements, as competitive as Italian dialects is invigorating, richly entertaining, and often funny, as it is to Shaskespeare, who gets tremendous effects out of their interplay. The dazzling multiplicity of sounds and word choices in English makes it brilliantly suited to be a language of poetry.. By Camille Paglia Norman French English Etymoogy Blunt

Everything is language. By Octavio Paz Language

My English is not very good-looking. By Celia Cruz English Goodlooking