Language Quotes
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan KayAlan Kay Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
Alan FingerAlan Finger I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
Ayaan Hirsi AliAyaan Hirsi Ali When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
Nikita GillNikita Gill We’re not savages. We’re English.
William GoldingWilliam Golding I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.
Alan LewisAlan Lewis Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
Nikita GillNikita Gill There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy