2,489 Quotes About Language

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them…dead ones.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence

Annoyance has made me bilingual.

All morning it has been raining. In the language of the garden, this is happiness.

Sadly, it seems that hyperbole is having another moment in popular discourse.

Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Unlike meaning, the truth always survives translation.