Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Men, Expression

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.7

• The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Simple, Needs

• Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Holiday, Play, Effort

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206

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