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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
- Orwell, George
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
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

2.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

3.
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

4.
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

5.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

6.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha

7.
Poetry is the language of feeling.
Winter, W.

8.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

9.
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

10.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

11.
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.

12.
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Herbert, George

13.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

14.
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

15.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Burchfield, Robert

16.
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

17.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare

18.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Muller, Max

19.
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne

20.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Wilde, Oscar

21.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

22.
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

23.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
Burgess, Anthony

24.
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

25.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

26.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Mathews, Harry

27.
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

28.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

29.
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

30.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher

31.
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

32.
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

33.
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
Lewis Thomas

34.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Beardsley, Aubrey

35.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

36.
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Ammianus, Marcellinus

37.
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

38.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

39.
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

40.
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

41.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

45.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

46.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

47.
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

48.
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

49.
Language is the inventory of human experience.
Lockhart, L. W.

50.
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Benchley, Robert


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