Quotes by Language There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language George Orwell routescorruptionlanguage English is the easiest language to speak badly. George Bernard Shaw languagespeak If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. George Orwell traditionlanguagepeople I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. George Sanders annoyedcommunicationlanguage Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). George Saunders bullshitlanguagemean Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. George W. Crane languageinspirationallife Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is. George Steiner languagemenworld Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. George Steiner understatementlanguage The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. George Will logiclanguagefields The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers. George Saunders languagetryingorder If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code. George Steiner languageperceptionmen What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. George Santayana languagehistoricalmen The English language is not always the President's friend. George Will english-languagelanguagepresident ... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it. George Sand progresstreasurelanguage It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form. Gerald Stern languagebreakkind To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that. Gerhard Richter paintingdifficultlanguage You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful. Gerhard Richter languagewould-bedream Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. George Soros esperantofound-someonelanguage To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. George Santayana languagespeakreligious The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. Gerard Manley Hopkins languageshouldage«3334353637383940414243»
