| Author |
Quotes |
| Edmund Spenser | Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. |
| Euripides | The language of truth is simple. |
| Friedrich Hebbel | If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. |
| Gaston Bachelard | A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. |
| George Eliot | The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. |
| H R Halderman | We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. |
| Heinrich Heine | If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. |
| Helen Keller | If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought. |
| Henri Delacroix | The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. |
| Henry Brooks Adams | No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| Hermann Weyl | Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. |
| Iris Murdoch | We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. |
| Jason Chamberlain | Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. |
| Jason Chamberlain | To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. |
| John French | Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. |
| John Hookham Frere | And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. |
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