Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3185 authors

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love… — Rajneesh
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. — Antonin Artaud
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. — Aubrey Beardsley
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. — Eric Bentley
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. — Isaiah Berlin
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to… — Edward de Bono
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. — Henri Delacroix
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities… — Albert Einstein
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The language of truth is simple. — Euripides
Deeds, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,… — Douglas Hofstadter
There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one! — Barbara Holland
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson
Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial. — Thomas Kuhn
A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier. — Frank Leahy

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