2,489 Quotes About Language

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

It is only proper to realize that language is largely a historical accident.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect