2,489 Quotes About Language

The most elegant of the dialects belongs to those who know only one language, who do not mix with Persians and who do not customarily settle in other lands. Those who have two languages and who mix with the populace of the cities have a certain slurring in their utterances.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.

Čeština je krásná řeč. Ona má obrovskou plejádu slov pro obyčejný věci. Třeba kulaťoučké jablíčko. To neřeknete jinou řečí. Angličan musí říct “a litte round apple“, malé kulaté jablko…. Tomu přece chybí barva i vůně.

Use simple words everyone knows, then everyone will understand.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

There was only one huge world with no back to itA world like a sunOne day it broke into tiny piecesThey were the words of the language we now speakPieces that will never come togetherBroken mirrors where the world sees itself shatterered

Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there’s love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.

The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.