Language Quotes

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
- Edmund Spenser

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
- E m Forster

Language helps form the limits of our reality.
- Dale Spender

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
- Christopher Ricks

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
- Charlemagne

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
- Casey Miller

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
- Casey Miller

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphines
- Carl Sagan