| Author |
Quotes |
| John Ruskin | The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. |
| John Selden | Syllables govern the world. |
| Joseph Conrad | To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. |
| Karen Elizabeth Gordon | Like a diaphanous nightgown language both hides and reveals |
| Katherine Dunn | I have been a believer in the magic of language since at a very early age I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. |
| Marcellinus Ammianus | The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. |
| Maya Angelou | Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. |
| Noam Chomsky | Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. |
| Penelope Lively | Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. |
| Penelope Lively | I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant. |
| Ralph Richardson | The most precious things in speech are pauses. |
| Rita Mae Brown | Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. |
| Rita Mae Brown | Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. |
| Robert Benchley | Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. |
| Robert Burchfield | The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. |
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