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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
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“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes |
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“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West Quotes |
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“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes |
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“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear”
Douglas Adams Quotes |
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“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
Karl Albrecht Quotes |
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“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them”
Stephen King Quotes |
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“Well languag'd Danyel.”
Sir William Browne Quotes Source: Brittania's Pastorals (bk. II, song 2, l. 303)
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“Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to
grammar.”
Jason Chamberlain Quotes Source: in inaugural address at University of Vermont, 1811
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“To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German.”
Jason Chamberlain Quotes Source: in inaugural address at University of Vermont, 1811
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“Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Biographia Literaria (ch. X)
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“And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?”
Samuel Daniel Quotes Source: Musophilus (last lines)
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“Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Sixth Satire of Juvenal (l. 583)
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“Language is fossil poetry.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--The Poet
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“Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.”
John Hookham Frere Quotes Source: King Arthur and his Round Table (introduction, st. 6)
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“Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Preface to his English Dictionary
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“The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
[Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et
dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (342)
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“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (342)
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“Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 262)
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“Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high
hands makes them obey its laws.
[Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,
Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Les Femmes Savantes (II, 6)
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“A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page
of a book.
[Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la
tete d'un livre.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Preface--Les Precieuses Ridicules
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