You must answer the devil in his own language. ~ Indian Proverbs
You are as many a person as languages you know. ~ Armenian Proverbs
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. ~ John French
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. ~ Ellen Gilchrist
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language. ~ Mal Pancoast
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the field, but not to describe human character. ~ Henry David Thoreau
To have another language is to possess a second soul. ~ Charlemagne
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~ William Butler Yeats
The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language. ~ John Banville
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ~ Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The language of truth is simple. ~ Euripides
The individual’s whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. ~ Henri Delacroix
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ~ George Eliot Quotes
The eyes have one language everywhere. ~ George Herbert Quotes
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ~ Derek Walcott
Spanish is the language of lovers; Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Poetry is the language of feeling. ~ W. Winter
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. ~ Jose Saramago
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland — and no other. ~ E. M. Cioran
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ~ Aphra Behn
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. ~ Lily Tomlin
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. ~ Martin Heidegger
Love understands all languages. ~ Romanian Proverbs
Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. ~ Russian Proverbs
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ~ George Orwell Quotes
Language is what stops the heart exploding. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. ~ Max Muller
Language is the pedigree of nations. ~ Author Unknown
Language is the inventory of human experience. ~ L. W. Lockhart
Language is the dress of thought. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
Language is the archives of history. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul. ~ Carl Jung
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
Language is not only the vehicle of thought; it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. ~ Sir Humphrey Davy
Language is a virus from outer space. ~ William S. Burroughs
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. ~ Karl Marx
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ~ George Steiner
Language … isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place. ~ Jeanette Winterson
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. ~ Thomas Hardy
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in, so long as it is in a language I do not understand.~ Edward Appleton
High thoughts must have high language. ~ Aristophanes
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. ~ Goethe
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one’s mother’s womb. ~ Italo Calvino
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. ~ J. K. Rowling
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. ~ Louise Bogan
As the man is, so is his language. ~ Danish Proverbs
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~ Martin Buber
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed. ~ Marcel Proust
