Quotes about Language

“It was Greek to me.”

“Poetry is all nouns and verbs.”

“The language of truth is simple.”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“Poetry is the language of feeling.”

“Language is the archives of history.”

“Language is the pedigree of nations.”

“Language is a virus from outer space.”

“The eyes have one language everywhere.”

“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”

“Language is the inventory of human experience.”

“Numbers constitute the only universal language.”

“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”

“Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.”

“The word of man is the most durable of all material.”

“The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.”

“The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.”

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”

“Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.”

“Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.”

“Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.”

“Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.”

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”

“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

“No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”

“We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.”