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

Language is the archives of history.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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.

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.

It is a luxury to be understood.

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