Linguistic Quotes
82 Linguistic quotes by 71 unique authors
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.
— Mahavira
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of…
— John Wesley Powell
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Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
— Henry Sweet
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the…
— A. N. Wilson
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There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
— Pierre Moreau
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I suspect that there is no other single profession that does more to contribute to our annoying linguistic convolutions than advertising, unless it's politics.
— Jef I Richards
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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Maybe…
— Robert Morgan
Who Wrote These Linguistic Quotes
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