Language Quotes by Famous Authors

Explore the best timeless quotes on Language, including thoughts on Language. Discover the best Language quotes by renowned authors.

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1. “No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand – for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.”

Ivan Turgenev

Nature, Mystery, Perception, Language, Beauty

2. “Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them.”

Ivan Turgenev

Language, Obsession, Burden, Artistry, Expression

3. “In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!”

Ivan Turgenev

Language, Patriotism, Identity, Culture, Support

4. “I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don’t do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots.”

Camille Paglia

Writing, Education, Language, Poetry, School

5. “There is nothing more important to me than the power of words to describe, re-create, entrance, and provoke.”

Camille Paglia

Words, Language, Writing, Power, Creativity

6. “I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.”

Camille Paglia

Media, Culture, Language, Society, Education

7. “I’m a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I’m an evangelist of popular culture, but when there’s only media, then there’s going to be a slow debasement of language, and that’s what I think we’re fighting.”

Camille Paglia

Media, Language, Culture, Education, Society

8. “The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”

Camille Paglia

Language, Art, Imagination, Philosophy, Expression

9. “Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?”

Mitch Hedberg

Wordplay, Animals, Humor, Perspective, Language

10. “I have a “Do Not Disturb” sign on my hotel door. It’s time to go to “Don’t Disturb”. It’s been “Do Not” for too long. We should embrace the contraction.”

Mitch Hedberg

Hotels, Language, Humor, Perspective, Signs

11. “I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwiches? All-encompassingly...”

Mitch Hedberg

Words, Vocabulary, Humor, Exaggeration, Language

12. “We’re gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes for the CD. You know what sweeten means, right? Sweeten is a show-biz term for “add sugar to”.”

Mitch Hedberg

Jokes, Comedy, Humor, Language, Showbiz