Who is the most quoted person in English?

OSCAR Wilde has been named as the “most quotable figure” in the history of the English language.

Is Shakespeare the most quoted English author?

Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the history of the English-speaking world after the various writers of the Bible; many of his quotations and neologisms have passed into everyday usage in English and other languages.

Who is the second most quoted writer in the English language?

Wikipedia notes Pope ‘is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope#Works, accessed 5 June 2019).

Who is the first most quoted English writer?

Shakespeare, of course, is the most quoted English author in our current times, but Samuel Johnson who created the first modern English language Dictionary is right up there too. Here is a reference about Johnson. Here is a nice review of the Author including his fame during his lifetime.

Who is the second most quoted writer in English after Shakespeare?

Currently voted the best answer. Sir Walter Scott is next with 15,000+ quotes.

Who writes the best English?

So, here we go with our pick of the ten best English authors of all time, by order of birth:

• Jane Austen, 1775 -1813.
• John Milton, 1608-1674.
• Harold Pinter, 1930-2008.
• Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870.
• John Donne, 1572-1631.
• George Elliot, 1819-1880.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.
• George Orwell, 1903-1950.

Where was English first spoken?

England
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England.

Who has written the most quotes in English literature?

All the following figures are approximates. Shakespeare leads with a staggering 33,000 quotes. The Bible is quoted 25,000 times but is not an author. Sir Walter Scott is next with 15,000+ quotes. Milton comes in with about 12,000+ quotes. Then come Cursor Mundi and Chaucer with 11,000. Dryden 9,000. Dickens 8,000. Tennyson 7,000.

Who are the top 10 best English authors of all time?

1 George Orwell. 2 J.R.R. 3 Iris Murdoch. 4 Roald Dahl. 5 J. K. Rowling. 6 C. S. Lewis. 7 Philip Pullman. 8 Charles Dickens. 9 Jane Austen. 10 Emily Brontë.

How many quotes does Shakespeare have?

Shakespeare leads with a staggering 33,000 quotes. The Bible is quoted 25,000 times but is not an author. Sir Walter Scott is next with 15,000+ quotes. Milton comes in with about 12,000+ quotes.

Is Lewis Carroll the second most quoted man in English history?

I couldn’t find any specific reference for the second most quoted in the OED, but according to several references, Lewis Carroll is the second most quoted man in English after Shakespeare. I don’t know exactly what that means and assume that the several sources who list this statistic got their information from the same original source.