Language Quote by Edgar Wallace

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very special occasions,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.”

— Robert Lane Greene

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed…

— Aldous Huxley

“He said the words flatly, with an ease born of years of practice, yet it still amazed him that such simple sentences could contain…

— Deborah Crombie

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“Why? The ease with which he manipulates words is his greatest talent. Was his difficulty a result of his torture? Something more? Like madness?”

— Suzanne Collins

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.”

— Andrew Davison

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce