Language Quotes

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

George Crane

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Friedrich Max Muller

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

Language is memory and metaphor

Storm Jameson

Where nature's end of language is declined,And men talk only to conceal the mind

Edward Young

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

Stephen Harper

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Joseph Brodsky

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Dale Spender

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

John Hookham Frere

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

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

Aprocrypha

Conduct is more convincing than language

John Woolman

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed

Antoine Lavoisier

O mouths humanity seeks a new language Beyond the reach of grammarians.

Guillaume Apollinaire

You see before you a man in his right mind Worldly-wise and with access to death Having tested the sorrow of love and its ecstasies Having sometimes even astonished the professors Good with languages Having travelled a great deal Having seen battle in the Artillery and the Infantry Wounded in the head trepanned under chloroform Having lost my best friends in the butchery As much of antiquity and modernity as can be known I know

Guillaume Apollinaire

All true language is incomprehensible, Like the chatter of a beggars teeth.

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

Wystan Hugh Auden

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

Russell Baker

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