William Shakespeare Quotes about Language
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. [39]
You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160
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