Quotes of Vernacular - somelinesforyou

“ 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 squirting out ink. ”

- George Orwell

“ When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. ”

- Talmud

“ England and America are two countries separated by a common language. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A different language is a different vision of life. ”

- Federico Fellini

“ The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. ”

- Anthony Burgess

“ The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. ”

- James Wolcott

“ He has strangled His language in his tears. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. ”

- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“ Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ”

- Ferdinand De Saussure

“ I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. ”

- Paul Keating

“ Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ There're not too many other ways I know how to say 'no' without slipping into another language. ”

- Christopher Hill

“ I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference… ”

- Andy Gibb

“ Music is the vernacular of the human soul. ”

- Geoffrey Latham

“ Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ”

- John Erskine

“ The pen is the tongue of the mind. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. ”

- Unknown

“ A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. ”

- Unknown

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

- Robert Benchley

“ The eyes have one language everywhere. ”

- George Herbert

“ It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ Language is a virus from outer space. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ Language is memory and metaphor. ”

- Storm Jameson

“ Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Language is wine upon the lips. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. ”

- George F. Will

“ I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. ”

- Samuel Johnson
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