Language Quotes
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.Joseph Roux
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.Black Hawk
A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.Chinese Prove
We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.Alison Lurie
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.Dorothy L. Sayers
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.Alford
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.Samuel Johnson
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.William Butler Yeats
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.James Earl Jones
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.Robert E. Lee
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.Henry David Thoreau
By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.William Carlos Williams
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.Mark Twain
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.Samuel Johnson
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.George Bernard Shaw
In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate.Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.Nelson Mandela
English is the easiest language to speak badly.George Bernhard Shaw
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.Doug Larson
Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.Franz Xavier Kroetz
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.Christopher Fry
Whoever said Marriage is a 5 - 5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.Austin Elliot
