Henry Jenner Quotes:

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

Topics: Language, Persons, Cornwall

Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.

source: - Henry Jenner (2012). “A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of Its History and Literature”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

Topics: Simple, Purpose, Answers

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Topics: People, Whole, Objects