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Language
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

Best Quotes about Language
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
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher
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
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael
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
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Daumal, Rene
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Wilde, Oscar
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert
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
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
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.
Hofstadter, Douglas
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
Charles, Prince Of Wales
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne
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 squirting out ink.
Orwell, George
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Guin, Ursula K. Le
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus
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
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
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
Daniel, Samuel
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Winter, W.
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Fanon, Frantz
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
Rushdie, Salman
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
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