Quotes about Language

[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

State unit of BJP will protect the rights of Tamil Nadu people and we will not back off from our attempts to bring glory to Tamil language.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.-The Word of God exists in something else.

Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language