Language Quote by Loretta Chase

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive…

— Elliott Colla

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“That's a killer accent you have. Sounds exotic.” “Just British, I'm afraid. I only know a trifling of foreign tongues.” He plopped down onto…

— Bella Street

“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I”

— Robert Lane Greene

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

— Henry Watson Fowler

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

— Toni Morrison

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent