Best Quotes about Language
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
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
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney
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
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Kraus, Karl
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Benchley, Robert
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Tillich, Paul
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown
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
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin
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
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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston
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
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
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
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
White, Elwyn Brooks
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Whitman, Walt
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
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
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
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 downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey
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
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
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Cooper, James F.
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
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Washington, Booker T.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 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
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
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
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Paz, Octavio
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
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