Famous quotes containing the words learnt and/or english:
“I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)