Top 26 Correct English Quotes
#2. I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
George Eliot
#3. When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.
Steven Pinker
#4. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
#5. The fact that a question can be phrased in a grammatically correct English sentence doesn't make it meaningful, or entitle it to our serious attention.
Richard Dawkins
#6. What has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
Dale Spender
#7. He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
Blaise Pascal
#8. I am speaking English, correct? I ask because sometimes I speak another language without meaning to.
Ashlan Thomas
#9. you go back and back and back and it's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. Do you think anybody is English? Really English? It's a fairy-tale!
Zadie Smith
#10. Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time."
"My pleasure. Always happy to educate.
Stephanie Perkins
#11. Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Criss Jami
#12. The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with.
Tim Cameron
#14. It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
#15. All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.
Pedro Almodovar
#16. He had tried so hard so many times, and she had always rejected him. He would not give her another chance, she knew.
-Sky
Melissa De La Cruz
#17. He even let me smoke a cigarette in his office, but he urged me to quit smoking because of the health risks. He even had a pamphlet in his desk that he gave me. I now use it as a bookmark.
Stephen Chbosky
#19. People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.
George W. Bush
#20. The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
Max Weber
#21. The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I would even say I am deeply puzzled by this trend. I am not certain what the correct answer should be.
Henry Rosovsky
#23. In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.
Jo Linsdell
#24. No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way.
Jackie Chan
#25. I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#26. God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that, realizes that he is in the midst, that takes heed to the assurance of his loving presence, will be quiet in the midst of alarm.
F.B. Meyer
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