I'd love to master another language properly.

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in…

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his…

— William Benton Clulow

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could…

— A. A. Milne

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly,…

— Charles de Lint

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

— Karl Kraus

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

— Martin Heidegger

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

— Jenny Weber

“Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”

— Heidegger, Martin

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make…

— Edward Sapir

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

— Richard Mitchell

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice…

— Richard Mitchell

“When you master a language, you are given the key to a castle. What you’ll find inside depends on you.”

— Elif Shafak

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica…

— Mona Simpson

“Do it well, finish it properly, and move on.”

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver