Language Quotes

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
- Blaise Pascal

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
- Benjamin Lee Whorf

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
- Benjamin Franklin

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.
- Belva Plain

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
- Aubrey Beardsley

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
- Antonin Artaud

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
- Anna Jameson

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
- Angela Carter

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
- Andrea Dworkin

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.
- Ambrose Bierce