Quotes About Language

What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

Las palabras están llenas de falsedad o de arte; la mirada es el lenguaje del corazón.

Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

L'amore, com'io penso, e la ingenuità d'una lingua impacciata, pur senza parlare, sanno significare molto.

Saadeti tamamen idrak eden bir kimse, Ä°fadeden acizdir duyduÄŸu saadeti, Bu his onu tamamen tatmin ettiÄŸi için, Yoktur kelimelerle süslemenin imkân?. Servetini sayanlar dilencilerdir ancak, Benim aÅŸk?m o kadar fazlalaÅŸm?? artm?? ki Servetimin yar?s?n? bile saymak imkâns?z.

the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language." What

Language alone is one of the worst means of expressing form, while drawing is incomparably the best.

Ideally, poetry in translation should one day lead a reader to a reading of the poem in the original tongue. The poem in its native phonemes, we often forget, was primarily a poem, and a good one, presumably, if chosen for translation. A poem in translation should be faithful, if to anything, to this primary quality of the original—that of its being an effective poem.

Somehow, even the slightest words and phrases of Sappho yield her voice.

Her time-scissored work is not quite language poetry, but a more joyful cousin of the eternal scant-garde, which is always and never new. So Sappho is ancient and, for a hundred reasons, modern.

Their language was an old wild language. They had known incredible loves and dark adventures and the twisted streets of alien cities. They had known the green breaking waves of the sea, and the green aisles of the silent forests. They had known war and death and fierce, cruel elation.

No other work of man in any language even faintly resembles the intricate structure and design of the Bible. The fact remains – only an infinite mind could have devised this Book of books.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.

Aw! I'll get 'ee rags and some turpletine.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.