Language Quotes
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.Unknown
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.George Bernard Shaw
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.George Bernard Shaw
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.James Grover Thurbe
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
High thoughts must have high language.Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B. C.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.Ben Harpe
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.Unknown
BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.Anon.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.Martha Graham
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.Jeremy Taylo
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.William Shakespeare
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.Keith Bostic
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.Austin Elliot
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.John Comenius
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.Lily Tomlin
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.Benjamin Franklin
