Language Quotes

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves An...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it t...

'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it t...

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-...

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as...

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's mor...

For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both wo...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to...

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the senten...

Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhoo...

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some question...

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. Engli...

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert u...

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language dis...

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully ri...

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not...

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, languag...

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., ar...

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...

You all right?" he said again.I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was see...

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...

TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HU...

In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there w...

TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detr...

ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of th...

Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes t...

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of...

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning ...

A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you...

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uned...

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did...

Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with ...

Loose and forbear!

The medium is the message.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in t...

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together ag...

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for...

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have...

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates ...

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of mode...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurate...

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and internat...

I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what sh...

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior in...

And if it is true that the image still has the function of speaking, of transmitting something consu...

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you ma...

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are conside...

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, ...

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue nativ...

Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of cu...

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing s...

..all subjects are forms of discourse and that, therefore, almost all education is a form of languag...

Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ...

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and ap...

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and as...

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language th...

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.

If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You wa...

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that...

In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to disc...

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the me...

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi...

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entire...

There was only one huge world with no back to itA world like a sunOne day it broke into tiny piecesT...

At first I couldn't see anything. I fumbled along the cobblestone street. I lit a cigarette. Suddenl...