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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
- Ingrid Bengis
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

2.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

3.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

4.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

5.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

6.
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

7.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
Huessy, Rosenstock

8.
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

9.
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
Tolkien, J. R.

10.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

11.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

12.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
Charles V

13.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

14.
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

15.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

16.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

17.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
Orwell, George

18.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Steiner, George

19.
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

20.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

21.
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

22.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.

23.
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

24.
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

25.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

27.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

28.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Shaw, George Bernard

30.
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

31.
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

32.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

33.
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
Joyce, James

34.
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative.
Rich, Adrienne

35.
The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
Einstein, Albert

36.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

37.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

38.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

40.
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

41.
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Hugo, Victor

42.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Mann, Thomas

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

50.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.


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