A Quote by Ben Jonson
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.
If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
A very scurvy fellow.
I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.
In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.
German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve, bring up their young players, who have character.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
London has this culture of the theatre that is so big, it was a like a dream - but I never had a thought to be able to play here because my English was not very good. So being given the opportunity to come work here was like a gift.
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