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Quotes About Language

When I came here, I couldn't speak a word of English, but my sex life was perfect. Now my English is perfect but my sex life is rubbish.
~ Julio Iglesias
I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.
~ Victoria Wood
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bi....
~ Jack Nicholson
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
~ George Carlin
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
~ Howard Nemerov
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
~ Robert Benchley
That awkward moment when you spell a word so wrong that even auto-correct is like 'I got nothing, man.'
~ Unknown
I aint a redneck 'cause I talk American real good!
~ Unknown
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'
~ Andy Rooney
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
~ Ben Hecht
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~ Thomas Hardy
Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.
~ Honus Wagner
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
~ David Ogilvy
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
~ Charles V
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words large or size with rear end. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
~ Tim Allen
She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.
~ William Shakespeare
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
~ Milan Kundera
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
~ Andrea Dworkin
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh.
~ Unknown
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
~ Erica Jong
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
~ William Shakespeare
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
~ Margaret Cavendish
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love
~ Margaret Atwood
Happenings in life depend on your attitude. Stay positive,speak the language ot heart with love,compassion & forgivness.
~ Anil Sinha