Language Quotes
52 quotations about Language
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Language is a virus from outer space.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Language is the archives of history.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
The language of truth is simple.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Authors on Language
Marcellinus Ammianus
Sir Edward Appleton
Antonin Artaud
Gaston Bachelard
Aubrey Beardsley
Robert Benchley
Anthony Burgess
William S. Burroughs
Charlemagne
Charles V
Clarence Darrow
Sir Humphrey Davy
Henri Delacroix
Andrea Dworkin
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Euripides
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Heinrich Heine
George Herbert