Those who know nothing of foreign languages,knows nothing of their own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
Elizabeth Bowen
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations
Samuel Johnson
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation
Elizabeth Bowen
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George Crane
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago
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.
Roland Barthes