Language Quote by Anthony Burgess Download Open image ““A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”” — Anthony Burgess ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Truth
“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.” — Heidegger, Martin Copy Share Image
“What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language of a… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
