Language Quotes

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

The menu is not the meal.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.