Language Quotes

It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

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

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

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

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

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

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

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

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

We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue.

Loose and forbear!

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

But for my own part it was Greek to me.

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

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

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there’s love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.

Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Freedom, one of the most important words in any language.

Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone—even a tree can understand music.

Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution.

It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's "the Latin" in me.

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.