English English, what are thou?

Hello Humility 3

This is the first post on English and on the first day of school.

Hence, I thought of sharing some thought-provoking quotes on English language.

Ask yourself or discuss among your classmates what each quote means to you.

Compare and contrast the different definition each of you have.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne

If you describe things as better than they are, you are thought a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are thought a realist; if you describe things as exactly as they are, then you are thought a satirist.
Quentin Crisp

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Henri Delacroix

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)