English Language Admission

Famous quotes containing the words english language, english, language and/or admission:

    ... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
    Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

    A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)

    From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.
    Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)