Language Quotes
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To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German. (Quote by - Jason Chamberlain)
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours? (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)
Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Language is fossil poetry. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. (Quote by - John Hookham Frere)
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)
Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Syllables govern the world. (Quote by - John Selden)
Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
He has strangled His language in his tears. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar. (Quote by - Sigismund)
Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. (Quote by - Edmund Spenser)
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. (Quote by - Marcellinus Ammianus)
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. (Quote by - H. R. Halderman)
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. (Quote by - Robert Burchfield)
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Quote by - Charlemagne)
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Quote by - Carl Sagan)
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. (Quote by - Christopher Ricks)
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. (Quote by - Benjamin Lee Whorf)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta. (Quote by - Belva Plain)
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. (Quote by - Penelope Lively)
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. (Quote by - Penelope Lively)
Language helps form the limits of our reality. (Quote by - Dale Spender)
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours? (Quote by - Samuel Daniel)
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. (Quote by - Friedrich Hebbel)
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Language is memory and metaphor. (Quote by - Storm Jameson)
All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. (Quote by - Casey Miller)
Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. (Quote by - William Osler)
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. (Quote by - John French)
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. (Quote by - Casey Miller)
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The most precious things in speech are pauses. (Quote by - Ralph Richardson)
Language is wine upon the lips. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. (Quote by - Katherine Dunn)
How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? (Quote by - E.m. Forster)
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. (Quote by - Karen Elizabeth Gordon)
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Words are loaded pistols. (Quote by - Jean-paul Sarte)
It was greek to me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. (Quote by - Aubrey Beardsley)
The language of truth is simple. (Quote by - Euripides)
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. (Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. (Quote by - Henri Delacroix)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
