Famous Language Quotes

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

The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language.
-- Duc De La Rochefoucauld

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
-- Thomas Carlyle

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
-- Robert Burchfield

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
-- George Eliot

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
-- Henri Delacroix

The language of truth is simple.
-- Euripides

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
-- Marcellinus Ammianus

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The most precious things in speech are pauses.
-- Ralph Richardson

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
-- John Ruskin

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
-- William Shakespeare

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
-- William Butler Yeats

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!
-- William Shakespeare

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.
-- Joseph Conrad

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
-- Jason Chamberlain

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
-- Charlemagne

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Hermann Weyl