Formal English Expressions

Famous quotes containing the words formal, english and/or expressions:

    “Then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lined,
    With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy. Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,—but glad and conspiring reception,—reception that becomes giving in its turn, as the receiver is only the All-Giver in part and infancy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)