Famous Language Quotes in English with Images

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.

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

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.  When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

- Apocrypha Quotes

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

- Language Quotes by Aeschylus

High thoughts must have high language.

- Language Quotes by Aristophanes Download or Share

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

- Quotes by Cato the Elder

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Use soft words and hard arguments.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

We have a longer life than deeds.

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

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

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.