Quotes on English Language

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.