Quotes about Language
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
- CS Lewis
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
- Joyce Meyer
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
- John Calvin
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- Ernest Hemingway
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
- John Bunyan
To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.
- Saint Jerome
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
- Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
- Samuel Beckett
Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson