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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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Best Quotes about Language

1.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Moore, Marianne

2.
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

3.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

4.
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

5.
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

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

7.
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

8.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Artaud, Antonin

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletcher

12.
Language is the pedigree of nations.
Johnson

13.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Hoban, Russell

14.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

15.
I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?
Pfizer, Sydney

16.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18.
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

19.
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Montessori, Maria

20.
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare

21.
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

22.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

23.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Bachelard, Gaston

24.
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

25.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Orwell, George

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Kraus, Karl

30.
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Weil, Simone

31.
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

32.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

33.
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Saussure, Ferdinand De

34.
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

35.
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other.
Cioran, E. M.

36.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.
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

38.
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

39.
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

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.
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

42.
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown

43.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

44.
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F.

45.
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.

46.
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

47.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln

48.
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

49.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus

50.
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


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