Quotes About Language

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?

I told him about the macaroni hanging out on the line like laundry to dry on Sunday in Catania. Sometimes he'd invite me to eat with him and we'd talk a little Italian.

Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth century, more books were burned than ever before or since. How many Homers vanished? How many Hesiods? What great works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music vanished or never were created? Languages, prayers, dreams, habits, and hopes—all gone.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman's.

"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble… "the law is a ass, a idiot."

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment.

He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world, and he cultivated a taste for its stores of knowledge and fancy.

Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty. (Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.)

I perceive your tongue is," returned madame; "and what the tongue is, I suppose the man is.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Each spoke in her own language; neither understood the other's words; both were very watchful, and intent to deduce from look and manner, what the unintelligible words meant.

It is nothing to say that he hadn't a word to throw at a dog. He couldn't have thrown a word at a mad dog. He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or a fragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but he wouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quick with him, for any earthly consideration.

Secondly, the Philanthropists had not the good temper of the Pugilists, and used worse language.

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.)

A thousand thanks, my master!' John Baptist said in his own language, and with the quick conciliatory manner of his own countrymen. Monsieur Rigaud arose, lighted a cigarette, put the rest of his stock into a breast-pocket, and

All writers misspeak, revealing not what they thought they said, but almost what they were afraid to say.

To name is to dominate, to categorize, to subjugate and, quite literally, to objectify

Alphabets therefore encourage an atomistic conception of meaning and, by extension, of the universe