QUOTES ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY FAMOUS AUTHORS

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.” – Derek Walcott

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The English language is the work of giants. Every new definition gives birth to new distinctions.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” – Rita Mae Brown

“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 shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf

“The beauty of language is that it allows us to create worlds within worlds.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

“Language is our most indispensable and at the same time most fragile organ of communication.” – Oliver Sacks

“English is not a pure language; it is an impure language that is never so impure as when it tries to be pure.” – Richard Lederer

“For me, words are a form of action, capable of transforming thoughts into reality.” – Ingrid Bengis

“Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita Mae Brown CHRISTMAS QUOTES TEAMWORK

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Language is the dress of thought.” – Samuel Johnson

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain

“Every language is beautiful, but it is often the beauty in the details that makes a language truly captivating.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.” – Chinua Achebe

“Language is an archaeological vehicle… the words buried beneath the present.” – Adrienne Rich

“Language is a city to building half of the time and demolishing half of the time.” – Italo Calvino

“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated.” – Joseph Brodsky

“In the Garden of Literature, language is the most beautiful flower.” – William Carlos Williams

“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.” – Mark Amidon

“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.” – Stephen Fry