„The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘cheque enclosed.“

— Dorothy Parker

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„BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„Most English-speaking people … will admit that cellar door is "beautiful," especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful…Well then, in Welsh, for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.“
— Bjarne Stroustrup