Famous quotes containing the words standard english, speak, standard and/or english:
“This unlettered man’s speaking and writing are standard English. Some words and phrases deemed vulgarisms and Americanisms before, he has made standard American; such as “It will pay.” It suggests that the one great rule of composition—and if I were a professor of rhetoric I should insist on this—is, to speak the truth. This first, this second, this third; pebbles in your mouth or not. This demands earnestness and manhood chiefly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
—Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)