language Quotes

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.