Posts Tagged “Language”

• Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~ George Eliot
• Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ~ Mark Twain
• Everything bows to success, even grammar. ~ Victor Hugo
• From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ~ Winston Churchill
• Grammar, which can govern even Kings.~ Moliere
• Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. ~ Rosenstock Huessy
• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ~ Joan Didion
• Grammar is the grave of letters. ~ Elbert Hubbard
• I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ~ Louis Aragon
• I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~ Mark Twain
• I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. ~ David Ogilvy
• I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. ~ George Bernard Shaw
• Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~ Mark Twain
• I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. ~ Carl Sandburg
• Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
• No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ~ Isaac Babel
• Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire
• Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ~ Octavio Paz
• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ Elwyn Brooks White
• You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.~ Robert Frost

• As the man is, so is his language.~ Danish Proverb
• 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
• 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
• He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.~  Goethe
• 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
• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.~ Thomas Hardy
• 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 is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language is a virus from outer space.~ William S. Burroughs
• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.~ Sir Humphrey Davy
• Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.~ Samuel Johnson
• Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.~ Max Muller
• Language is the archives of history.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language is the dress of thought.~ Samuel Johnson
• Language is the inventory of human experience.~ L. W. Lockhart
• Language is the pedigree of nations.~ Author Unknown
• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
• Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect.~ Russian Proverb
• Love understands all languages.~ Romanian Proverb
• Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.~ Martin Heidegger
• Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.~ Lily Tomlin
• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland — and no other.~ E. M. Cioran
• Poetry is the language of feeling.~ W. Winter
• Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.~ Spanish Proverb
• 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
• The eyes have one language everywhere.~ George Herbert
• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.~ George Eliot
• The individual’s whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.~ Henri Delacroix
• The language of truth is simple.~ Euripides
• The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.~ William Butler Yeats
• To have another language is to possess a second soul.~ Charlemagne
• We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the field, but not to describe human character.~ Henry David Thoreau
• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.~ Oscar Wilde
• We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.~ Mal Pancoast
• Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.~ John French
• You are as many a person as languages you know.~ Armenian Proverb
• You must answer the devil in his own language.~ Indian Proverb

• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?~ Russell Hoban
• Arabic is a language, Persian is a delicacy and Turkish is an art.~ Iranian Proverb
• As long as a language lives, the people will not perish.~ Czech Proverb
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.~ Gaston Bachelard
• Better wise language than well combed hair.~ Icelandic Proverb
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?~ Clarence Darrow
• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.~ Samuel Johnson
• If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don’t speak, it’s because everything’s perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.~ Jean Baudrillard
• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
• I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.~ J. R.R. Tolkien
• Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.~ Noam Chomsky
• Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.~ Karl Kraus
• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.~ George Orwell
• No language is rude that can boast polite writers.~ Aubrey Beardsley
• One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.~ John Berger
• Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.~ Spanish Proverb
• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.~ George Bernard Shaw
• The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.~ Robert Burchfield
• The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.~ Claudius Galen
• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.~ James F. Cooper
• The echo knows all languages.~ Finnish Proverb
• There is nothing in philosophy that could not be said in everyday language.~ Henri L. Bergson
• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.~ John Ruskin
• When a language creates — as it does — a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.~ Christopher Ricks
• Who knows the language is at home everywhere.~ Dutch Proverb

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