Language Quotes

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a… — Roland Barthes
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little,… — Roland Barthes
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the… — Roland Barthes
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… — Charles Baudelaire
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. — Jean Baudrillard
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are… — Jean Baudrillard
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. — Glenn Beck
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. — William Bernbach
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. — Aphra Behn
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. — John Berger
To understand is to perceive patterns. — Isaiah Berlin
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say… — Steven Adler
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. — Ambrose Bierce
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel

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