Language Quotes


While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. Jose Rizal Language 346
The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it. Jonathan Culver Language 268
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Benjamin Lee Whorf Language 219
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Ralph Waldo Emerson Language 202
Language is the inventory of human experience. L. W. Lockhart Language 197
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson Language 182
The eyes have one language everywhere. George Herbert Language 171
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. Ludwig Wittgenstein Language 130
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. Benjamin Lee Whorf Language 129
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language. Mal Pancoast Language 128
The menu is not the meal. Alan Wilson Watts Language 125
Each time a language dies another flame goes out another sound goes silent. Ariel Sabar Language 121
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire Language 114
Numbers constitute the only universal language. Nathanael West Language 109
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. George Bernard Shaw Language 108
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats Language 105
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. Benjamin Franklin Language 105
We breathe in our first language and swim in our second. Adam Gopnik Language 105
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Sir Humphrey Davy Language 104
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. Martin Heidegger Language 102
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor. Vaclav Havel Language 101
There is a pride in speaking this language. Bernard Pivot Language 101
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language 98
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot Language 96
There is no use indicting words they are no shoddier than what they peddle. Samuel Beckett Language 96
Without language thought is a vague uncharted nebula. Ferdinand de Saussure Language 93
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Thomas Hardy Language 90
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. Marcellinus Ammianus Language 89
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert Language 88
Language is the pedigree of nations. Johnson Language 88
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery any progress Paul Karl Feyerabend Language 88
Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries. George Eliot Language 87
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. James Fenimore Cooper Language 87
As long as human beings speak different languages the need for translation will continue. Nataly Kelly Language 86
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. Johann von Goethe Language 86
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. Samuel Johnson Language 86
Languages are not strangers to on another. Walter Benjamin Language 86
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. Russell Hoban Language 85
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. George Bernard Shaw Language 85
It was impossible to quarrel with words whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly. Jane Austen Language 84
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. Ben Johnson Language 84
Simplicity may be simple but like complexity it requires linguistic precision and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times. John White Language 84
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. Max Muller Language 84
Quien calla una palabra es su dueo quien la pronuncia es su esclavo. Karl Kraus Language 84
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Language 82
The language of truth is simple. Euripides Language 82
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. Aubrey Beardsley Language 81
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. John French Language 81
Show a people as one thing - as only one thing - over and over again, and that is what they become. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Language 81
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt. J.K. Rowling Language 81

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