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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
Baudrillard, Jean

2.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Chomsky, Noam

3.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

4.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Baudrillard, Jean

5.
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Ehrenreich, Barbara

6.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

7.
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.
Chandler, Raymond

8.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.
Trench, Richard Chevenix

9.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Calvino, Italo

10.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

11.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

12.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson

13.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
Vidal, Gore

14.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

15.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

16.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Mathews, Harry

17.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

18.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

19.
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
Vico, Giambattista

20.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

21.
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Walcott, Derek

22.
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.
Appleton, Sir Edward

23.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
Berger, John

24.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder

25.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

26.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

28.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Barthes, Roland

29.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

30.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

31.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Canetti, Elias

32.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell

33.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

34.
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Man, Paul De

35.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

36.
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.
Ndebele, Njabulo

37.
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Hoban, Russell

38.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
Bogan, Louise

39.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

40.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

41.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Barthes, Roland

42.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

43.
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
Lodge, David

44.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

45.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

46.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

47.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic ape suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.
Jordan, June

48.
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

50.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Ricks, Christopher


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