Quotes about Language
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
- Anonymous
I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.
- Toni Duggan
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
- Maya Angelou
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
- Miranda Otto
There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.
- Phil Klay
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
- Publilius Syrus
There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.
- John Ortberg
When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he came down again, this time to reconcile that sinful world to himself.
- Tullian Tchividjian
When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language
- Leonard Sweet
Every man prays in his own language.
- Duke Ellington
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
- Lewis Carroll
Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.
- Victor Hugo