How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

It is a luxury to be understood.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.