2,489 Quotes About Language

Money is a language universally understood. Inability to speak it fluently is a deformity. Moral support, sympathy and oratory are all bark and no bite if not backed with cash. Any claim on wisdom without cash is void.

Language, George Orwell reminds us, is always political. It can be used to “make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” The euphemism, he wrote, is the weapon of choice: "Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

May every being not just learn but MASTER the language of Tolerance, Peace and Love

In reality, love is fluid; it’s a verb, not a noun.

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one’s friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion.

There are as many metaphorical subtleties in architecture as there are in language, maybe more. The metaphorical power of architecture is inescapable and has many dimensions.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class