Language Quote by Agatha Christie

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He could quite quickly become detached from the nuances of common human emotion. Particularly if he was engaged in some aspect of a scientific…

— Theresa Breslin

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At…

— Leila Aboulela

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“Partly by accident, partly by instinct, partly by deliberate contrivance, he was the first intellectual systematically to exploit the guilt of the privileged. And…

— Paul Johnson

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather