| Author |
Quotes |
| Aldous Huxley | Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. |
| Aldous Huxley | Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons. |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks |
| Ambrose Bierce | For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it. |
| Andrea Dworkin | Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. |
| Angela Carter | Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. |
| Anna Jameson | Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. |
| Antonin Artaud | All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. |
| Aubrey Beardsley | No language is rude that can boast polite writers. |
| Belva Plain | I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta. |
| Benjamin Franklin | The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense. |
| Benjamin Lee Whorf | Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. |
| Blaise Pascal | Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. |
| Carl Sagan | It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. |
| Casey Miller | All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. |
| Casey Miller | Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. |
| Charlemagne | To have another language is to possess a second soul. |
| Christopher Ricks | 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. |
| Dale Spender | Language helps form the limits of our reality. |
| E m Forster | How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? |
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