English Language Admission

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

    He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
    Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)