English Quotes

I don’t know how I’m sitting here right now speaking English.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

In terms of language, English is very dominant vis-Ã-vis African language. That in itself is a power relationship – between languages and communities – because the English language is a determinant of the ladder to achievement.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.