Form Quote by E. J. W. Barber

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

— Minna Antrim

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I…

— Clive James

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

— John le Carre

Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic…

— Susie Dent

“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a little care,…

— Joseph Devlin

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

— David Crystal

The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors…

— Susie Dent

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine