Language Quote by Colette

“They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it’s the secrets that attract attention.”

— R. Zamora Linmark

“Had they nothing else to say to one another? More serious communications were, to be sure, passing between their eyes. As they tried to…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart, it was love.”

— Paulo Coelho

“He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew…

— Margaret Craven

“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“The world around them ceased to exist, and they stared at each other accross the tumult, communicating thoughts that could not be put into…

— Jennifer Beckstrand

“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no…

— Unica Zürn

“Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead…

— Nicole Krauss

“And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it,…

— John Green

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…”

— Arthur Rimbaud