Quotes on “language”

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Me neither, Shane put in. Homie don’t play that.I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, Amelie said.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.