Language Quotes

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. (William Butler Yeats)
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. View quote
Simone Weil
The language of truth is simple. View quote
Seneca
High thoughts must have high language. View quote
Aristophanes
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Language is the dress of thought. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. View quote
Christopher Morley
Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. (Robert Benchley)
Music is the universal language of mankind. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. View quote
Martha Graham
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. View quote
Thomas Hardy
England and America are two countries separated by the same language. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. View quote
Aphra Behn
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. View quote
Rumi
Language is the house of the truth of Being. View quote
Martin Heidegger
A different language is a different vision of life. View quote
Federico Fellini
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. View quote
Nelson Mandela
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. View quote
George Carlin
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. View quote
Henry James
War is what happens when language fails. View quote
Margaret Atwood
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