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Language Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- Language is wine upon the lips.
- for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,…
- Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
- I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
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