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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
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
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

2.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

3.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
West, Nathanael

4.
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

5.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

6.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

7.
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

8.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Johnson

9.
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

10.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

11.
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

12.
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

13.
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

14.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

15.
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

16.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

17.
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

18.
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

19.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

20.
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

21.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

22.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

23.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

24.
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

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

26.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Shaw, George Bernard

27.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

28.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

29.
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

30.
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.

31.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar

32.
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

33.
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

34.
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

35.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson

36.
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

37.
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

38.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

39.
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

40.
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

41.
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

42.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

43.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

44.
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

45.
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

46.
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

47.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

48.
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

49.
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.

50.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne


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