“ Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 1.4K
“ For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!". ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 3.6K
“ My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 881
“ A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3K
“ Tears are the noble language of eye;And when true love of words is destitute,The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
- 812
“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 2.4K
“ For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 2.2K
“ They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 244
“ Done to death by slanderous tongues Was the Hero that here lies. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 366
“ If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in. ”
- Jennifer Ellison- Copy
- 2.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Before Latin, there is a period which Greek and Slavic share in common. So this involves the history of language families, as and when relevant. ”
- Ferdinand De Saussure- Copy
- 3.1K
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