VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Well languag'd Danyel.

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Language is fossil poetry.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson,

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it.

Syllables govern the world.

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

He has strangled His language in his tears.