language Quotes

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.