“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.”
― Nelson Mandela
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
― George Orwell
“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”
― Johnny Carson
“Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.”
― Aravind Adiga
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
― Eugene H. Peterson
“We speak, but it is God who teaches.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo
“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”
― Siri Hustvedt
“Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.”
― Cees Nooteboom
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful.”
― Victor Lodato
“The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.”
― Joan Didion
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.”
― Suzy Kassem
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.”
― Jasper Fforde
“Language has not the power to speak what love indites
The soul lies buried in the Ink that writes”
― John Clare
“Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very elegant language; yet he only succeeds in being ridiculous.”
― Sei Shōnagon
Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue
“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”
― L.M. Montgomery