Henry Jenner quotes

“There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.”
-- Henry Jenner

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“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.”
-- Henry Jenner

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

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“The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.”
-- Henry Jenner

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“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”

“You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.73, Penguin

“I'm not the type of person that is forced.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

“I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.”

“Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.”

“Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.”

Source : "Adam Levine: 'People thought Maroon 5 were a boy band'". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. August 5, 2014.

“What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.”

“Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.”