Language Quotes

"Speech and phenomena" "Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change" "There is no language without deceit" "Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother’s womb" "Writing is itself but the representation of speech" "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity" "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." "My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees." "The language of friendship is not words but meanings" "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "Words are all we have" "Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow" "If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?" "The original is unfaithful to the translation" "When ideas fail, words come in handy" "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain." "Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "Words are the money of fools" "A man without words is a man without thought"