Language Quotes
52 quotations about Language
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Language is the dress of thought.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Language is the inventory of human experience.
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
It was Greek to me.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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