Language Quotes

“"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,"Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.”

“Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.”

“You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse”

“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”

“I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)”

“I cannot speak your england.”

“Ay, is it not a language I speak?”

“Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!”

“My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)”

“How long a time lies in one little word?”

“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.”

“Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!”

“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”

“Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.”

“For mine own part, it was Greek to me.”

“Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.”

“Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle;I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace"In an ungracious mouth is but profane.”

“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”

“The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.”

“I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.”

“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”

“Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.”

“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”