2,489 Quotes About Language

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Translation is the art of failure.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.