“The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.”
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
“All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.”
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”
“Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.”
“I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
“As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.”
“I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.”
“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.”
“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”
“I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.”
“The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.”
“If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.”
“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.”
“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”
“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.”
“We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.”
“Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.”
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
“Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.”