Quotes About Language

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. "I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn't spend 'em too cheap." Ranulf nodded. "That is the manner in which I roll.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even gods.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.