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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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Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth
to it.
[Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment
et la verite.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quotes , Source: Emile (I)
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Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at IV, v)
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He has strangled
His language in his tears.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at V, i)
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You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tempest (Caliban at I, ii)
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There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Winter's Tale (First Gentleman at V, ii)
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I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
Sigismund
Quotes , Source: said at the 1414 Council of Constance to a prelate who objected to his grammar
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Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
Edmund Spenser
Quotes , Source: The Faerie Queene (IV, 2, 32)
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Halderman
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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Christopher Ricks
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
John Ruskin
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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.
Walt Whitman
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