Quotes About Language

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, 'You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.