“"Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.”

“We… believed once in English liberalism and English sympathy; but we believe no longer, for facts are stronger than words. Your liberalness we see plainly is only for yourselves, and your sympathy with us is that of the wolf for the lamb which he deigns to eat.”

“Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.”

“For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was never really hers.”

“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”

“That's totally their interpreter," a girl with a lip ring informs us. "Even though they totally record their music in English, they totally speak in Inuktitut. Totally.”