language Quotes

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

topic:truth politics language

“The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language;...”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

topic:reading books language

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:freedom choice language

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

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death writing language loss

“an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:understanding music language

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

topic:meaning language

“When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

topic:meaning language

“Scarcely any question arises in the United States which does not become, sooner or later, a subject of judicial debate; hence all parties are obliged to borrow the ideas, and even the language, usual in judicial proceedings in their daily...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“a fundamental quality in the female tradition . . . The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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