“He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.”
On Sir Winston Churchill, in a CBS broadcast (30 November 1954)
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“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
“The battle is won, the English have been utterly defeated.”
Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (23 March 1918) after the first German successes of the Spring Offensive, quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 344
1910s
“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
Source: Howards End
“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”
“English translation of the Spanish language text.”
Vogue, Mexico Interview: Una Actirz Multiplicada (July 1992)
Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
Unsere übertragungen, auch die besten, gehen von einem falschen grundsatz aus, sie wollen das indische, griechische, englische verdeutschen, anstatt das deutsche zu verindischen, vergriechischen, verenglischen. ... Der grundsätzliche irrtum des übertragenden ist, daß er den zufälligen stand der eigenen sprache festhält, anstatt sie durch die fremde gewaltig bewegen zu lassen.
Die Krisis der europäischen Kultur (1917), as translated in Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings: Volume 1, 1913-1926 (1996), pp. 261-262
“The only language that ought to replace Tamil is English.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
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1910s, Pygmalion (1912)