Famous Language Quotes



The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

A dog's wagging tail is a universal language of happiness that brightens even the darkest days.

Love is a language spoken by the soul.

In a world where differences abound, respect is the universal language that transcends barriers, opening the door to empathy and understanding.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

John Donne

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Mark Twain

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