2,489 Quotes About Language

I have a disease; I see language.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Words were stories in themselves.

It is therefore necessary that writers everywhere should see it as their ultimate duty to preserve artfulness of language by couching audacious prose.

Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.

America where thereis the little old ramshackle victoria in the south,where cigars are smoked on the street in the north;where there are no proof-readers, no silkworms, no digressions;the wild man's land; grassless, linksless, languageless country inwhich letters are writtennot in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand,but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!

Most of the people who have verbally asserted that ‘there is no master of pronounciation’ have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is ‘pro-nun-ciation’ not ‘pro-noun-ciation’.)

We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!

Another thing your teachers didn't tell you is that one day, arguments over whether or not to capitalize the word internet would constitute half your workday and lead to severed ties with many people you once considered close friends and family.