Language Quotes

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

Gyles Lytton Sitrachy

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.

Muhammad Ali

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bentley

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osle

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

Alford

Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Austin Elliot

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

I am is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that I do is the longest sentence?

George Carlin

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Tim Bedore

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Mark Twain

Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell, 1946

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Mark Twain

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.