William Shakespeare Quotes About Language

• Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Language, Speak

• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

• They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

  William Shakespeare

  Communication, Language, Stolen

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [39]

• My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Speech, Language

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Tongue, Language

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

• Ay, is it not a language I speak?

  William Shakespeare

  Language, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1832). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings”, p.676

• Fie, fie upon her!
  There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
  Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
  At every joint and motive of her body.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Feet

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 54

• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

• RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ears, Tongue

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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