Language Quotes

Like a diaphanous nightgown language both hides and reveals
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
- Joseph Conrad

Syllables govern the world.
- John Selden

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
- John Ruskin

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
- John Hookham Frere

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
- John French

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
- Jason Chamberlain

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
- Jason Chamberlain