As quoted in Топ-10 самых скандальных и оскорбительных высказываний Лукашенко http://europeanbelarus.org/be/news/2012/2/24/3941/ // Civil campaign European Belarus, europeanbelarus.org (in Russian)
“It is impossible for us English lawyers, dealing with the English language, to express our views except in the technical language of our law.”
Lauri v. Renad (1892), L. R. 3 C. D. [1892], p. 413.
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Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge to the Mandarins (p. 17-18)
Context: The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. It is the diction of Donne, Browne, Addison, Johnson, Gibbon, de Quincey, Landor, Carlyle and Ruskin as opposed to that of Bunyan, Dryden, Locke, Defoe, Cowper, Cobbett, Hazlitt, Southey and Newman. It is characterized by long sentences with many dependent clauses, by the use of the subjunctive and conditional, by exclamations and interjections, quotations, allusions, metaphors, long images, Latin terminology, subtlety and conceits. Its cardinal assumption is that neither the writer nor the reader is in a hurry, that both are possessed of a classical education and a private income. It is Ciceronian English.
“59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
Epigrams on Programming, 1982
Source: 7 March 1942, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”
Harvard Law School Forum (1966)
“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
Source: Howards End
“The world language is English as spoken by foreigners”