• It was Greek to me.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 141 reads

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• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 26 reads

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• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 85 reads

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• Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 50 reads

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• Language is the archives of history.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 166 reads

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• 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

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.0 · 40 votes · 52 reads

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 163 reads

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• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 48 reads

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• Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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• Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ph

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 127 reads

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• Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 9 votes · 143 reads

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• Might, could, would -they are contemptible auxiliaries.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 113 reads

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• Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 59 reads

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• No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 131 reads

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• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -and no other.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 96 reads

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• The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

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  Anthony Burgess

  AuthorEnglish1917 · 20th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 129 reads

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• The eyes have one language everywhere.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 42 reads

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 76 reads

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 185 reads

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• The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 29 reads

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• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.0 · 19 votes · 163 reads

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• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 35 reads

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• Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 7 reads

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• To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 166 reads

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social obse

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 54 reads

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• We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 58 reads

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• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 197 reads

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