Language Quote by Charles Lamb Download Open image “A laxity pervades the popular use of words.” — Charles Lamb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Use
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere.… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.” — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
