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

1.
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

2.
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

3.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Shaw, George Bernard

4.
We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.
Pancoast, Mal

5.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

6.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

7.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Davy, Sir Humphrey

8.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

9.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

11.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

12.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

13.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Dworkin, Andrea

14.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

15.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson

16.
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Macaulay, Thomas B.

17.
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

18.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heine, Heinrich

19.
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

20.
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.

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.
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

23.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

24.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

25.
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Roth, Philip

26.
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

27.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

28.
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

29.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

30.
You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
Porter, Katherine Anne

31.
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

32.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

33.
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

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

40.
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

41.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

42.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

43.
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

44.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

45.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee

46.
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

47.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

48.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

49.
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

50.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Heidegger, Martin


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