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