Oscar Wilde Quotes About Language

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Two Nations

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58

• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Style, Lightning

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

• I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

  Oscar Wilde

  Race, Language

• There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Animal, Action, Emotion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

• I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, Ass, Curse

• The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, British, Identical

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