Language Quotes and Sayings
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― George Orwell
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to
illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time
people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal
“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin
“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
“But the Hebrew word, the word tinsel—‘Thou mays’— that gives a choice. It might be the most
important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou
mays’—it is also true that ‘Thou Mayes not.”
― John Steinbeck
“Silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi
“I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because
together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q.”
― Jarod Kintz
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have
no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell
“I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and
without listening and while my back is turned. ”
― Jarod Kintz
“From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through
the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.”
― J.K. Rowling
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to
mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Ronald Reagan
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
― George Orwell
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to
illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time
people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal
“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Meow” means “woof” in cat.”
― George Carlin
“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
“But the Hebrew word, the word tinsel—‘Thou mays’— that gives a choice. It might be the most
important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou
mays’—it is also true that ‘Thou Mayes not.”
― John Steinbeck
“Silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi
“I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because
together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q.”
― Jarod Kintz
“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have
no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell
“I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and
without listening and while my back is turned. ”
― Jarod Kintz
“From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through
the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.”
― J.K. Rowling
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
― Winston S. Churchill
“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to
mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll
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