Quotes About Language

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston Churchill

Meow? means "woof" in cat.

George Carlin

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Rumi

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Zadie Smith

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot

The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or of a lack of verbal interest is just f*cking lunatic.

Stephen Fry

I wrote a letter to my dad - I wrote, "I really enjoy being here," but I accidentally wrote rarely instead of really. But I still wanted to use it so I crossed it out and wrote, "I rarely drive steamboats, dad - there's a lot of shit you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator." This letter took a harsh turn right away.

Mitch Hedberg

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic memoirs...

Stephen Fry

What's another word for thesaurus?

Steven Wright