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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
Author: Friedrich Hebbel
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
Author: Heinrich Heine
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Language is memory and metaphor.
Author: Storm Jameson
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All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
Author: Casey Miller
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Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
Author: William Osler
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Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Author: John French
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Author: Angela Carter
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.
Author: Helen Keller
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
Author: Casey Miller
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
Author: Blaise Pascal
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Author: Ralph Richardson
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Language is wine upon the lips.
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Author: William Butler Yeats
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Author: Katherine Dunn
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How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
Author: E.m. Forster
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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Author: Anna Jameson
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
Author: C. Truesdell
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Author: Hermann Weyl
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Words are loaded pistols.
Author: Jean-paul Sarte
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It was greek to me.
Author: William Shakespeare
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Author: Aubrey Beardsley
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The language of truth is simple.
Author: Euripides
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Author: Noam Chomsky
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The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Author: Henri Delacroix
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Author: Gaston Bachelard
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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Author: Maya Angelou
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Author: Iris Murdoch
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Author: Antonin Artaud
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Author: Toni Morrison
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