Proper English Quotes

"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

I once met a beautiful, proper English girl. I bid her adieu.... she bid me a don't.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

I used to get called Lady Penelope at school because the other kids thought I spoke nicely.