Quotes About Language

Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of all of it. Let us now celebrate the sound of our own voices.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Dont mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke.

It's often not what you say, but how you say it that matters most.

For people to understand you,speak their language.

First learn the meaning of what you want to say, and then speak.

To earn a fool respect, you can't try to be an intellectual with them, you have to learn to speak their type of language, so they can understand and trust you, then you will earn their respect!

The words you speak today could be the words you eat tomorrow. You better make them sweet!

Handle words with care as they may damage you as well as others.

There Are Hundreds Of Languages In the World. But, A Smile Speaks Them All. And The Best Smile Is The One Which Shines Through Troubles.

Tell her she's beautiful instead of hot. She's a woman not a temperature.

4 Rules for texting a girl: 1) Don't take 40 minutes to reply. 2) Use good grammar. 3) Ask Questions. 4) Always use the smiley face

She cursed me at such length and with such inventiveness I had to check both my watch and my dictionary.

if history had never happened, neither as farce nor as tragedy, if the serpent of language had not bitten me, if I had never been born, if my mother was never cleft, if you needed no more revisions, and if I saw no more of these visions, please, could you please just let me sleep?

I was a little person who spoke an immigrant version of his language, the language of a country that basked in the best of both worlds: to have once been an imperial power that had mugged weaker countries at gunpoint, while no longer being an imperial power and having to deal with pesky things like mosquitoes and malaria or resentment and revolutions.

I, for one, am a person who believes that the world would be a better place if the word "murder" made us mumble as much as the word "masturbation.

Forced," of course, is a euphemism with the exact opposite meaning, like "pacification," which usually involved a great degree of homicidal force on rambunctious natives.

Merde! The single most useful word in the French language, easy to pronounce and eloquently expressive of conditions from the literally fecal to the unpleasantly existential.

Real talent was required to use so many words in two languages to say nothing.

While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.

Cut to villagers speaking in their own language? Do you think it might not be decent to let them actually say something instead of simply acknowledging that there is some kind of sound coming from their mouths? Could you not even just have them speak a heavily accented English—you know what I mean, ching-chong English—just to pretend they are speaking in an Asian language that somehow American audiences can strangely understand?

There was no need for the French to condemn us. So long as we spoke in their language, we condemned ourselves.

As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.

Education teaches a man how to speak, now how long or how often.