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Language Quotes & Sayings

language-Viewed freely, the English language

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-Language is wine upon the

Language is wine upon the lips.
- Virginia Woolf

language-We die. That may be

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

language-Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.
- Storm Jameson

language-I am the King of

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

language-Language is the armory of

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

language-Pedantry consists in the use

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

language-The English language is rather

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

language-Drawing on my fine command

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

language-Language exerts hidden power, like

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

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