(1563 quotes found)
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
Ezra Pound
“Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.”
Mark Twain
“Change your language and you change your thoughts.”
Karl Albrecht
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fie, fie upon her!There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.”
William Shakespeare
“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”
Humphrey Davy
“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words”
Kahlil Gibran
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Stephen King
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”
Emile M. Cioran
