Language Quote by E.M.Forster

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll

“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”

— Daniel Keyes

“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”

— Colum McCann

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is…

— Anonymous

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

“The good words reveal weaknesses and unleash potential.”

— Toba Beta

“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of beauty is…

— Muriel Barbery

“You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.…

— Lily King

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“It is to be hoped the time will come, thank God, in some circles it already has, when language is best used where it…

— Samuel Beckett