Accents Quote by Emile M. Cioran

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious.…

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I…

— Elias Canetti

Anguish is the universal language

— Alice Fulton

“I knew you'd be pleased. But I beg of you: don't write things like 'The fox was orally fixated all afternoon.' There are so…

— Noémi Szécsi

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

— Sven Birkerts

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

— John Dryden

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language…

— Margaret Wise Brown

“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into…

— Daphne Rose Kingma

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

— Arnold Bennett

“The Most fucked up language which I have ever encountered is Bulgarian. (I hate the way it sounds)”

— Deyth Banger