Published 20:30 IST, April 22nd 2020
World English Language Day Quotes: Thought-provoking words to get inspired on this day
The World English Language Day is celebrated on 23rd April of every year to let the people know its importance. So, here are some amazing quotes on this day.
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English language initiated from a small cluster of islands off coast of Western Europe and slowly developed and got spre through a few permutations. Over time, with an explosion of colonialism, this language suddenly spre across world like wildfire. And now, English language has become language of commerce in countries all over world. Hence, English Language Day celebrates this worldwide famous language, its history, and its oddities in month of April.
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World English Language Day is celebrated on April 23 of every year
Have a look at some World English Language Day Quotes for you to get inspired
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued or languages down alleyways to beat m unconscious and rifle ir pockets for new vocabulary.
-James Nicoll
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With hard work, learning English, and getting involved, re is no limit on what you can achieve.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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To me it is very important to understand nature of English and how it works.
-Shakira
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Speaking English is like a tongue-twister for me. I can speak each word perfectly, but n you have to string m toger, like "Blah, blah, blah." That's when I get crazy.
-Jackie Chan
Language is ro map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where y are going.
-Rita Mae Brown
English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
-Stephen Fry
barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or, to put thing less cynically, we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.
-E. M. Forster
Today a reer, tomorrow a leer.
– Margaret Fuller
English is language of a people who have probably earned ir reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because ir language itself is so flexible, so often light-heed with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing next.
-Paul Scott
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been two most beautiful words in English language.
-Henry James
Language is “ infinite use of finite means.”
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
Is it not enjoyable to learn and practise what you learn?
– Confucius
English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.
-Douglas Coupland
Reing is to mind what exercise is to body.
– Joseph dison
To have anor language is to possess a second soul.
– Charlemagne
Language is wine upon lips.
– Virginia Woolf
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
20:30 IST, April 22nd 2020