2,489 Quotes About Language

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Every language has its own music.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.