Language Quotes

Language Quote of the day

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Every word is a prejudice.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Language is fossil Poetry.

One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

Language is the dress of thought.

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.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

But for my own part it was Greek to me.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

When I use a word, ’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.