Language Quotes

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
- Walt Whitman

Language is wine upon the lips.
- Virginia Woolf

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
- Toni Morrison

Language is memory and metaphor.
- Storm Jameson

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
- Sigismund

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
- Robert Burchfield

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown