Language Quote by Fay Weldon

“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...”

— George Orwell

“However differently we spoke the language, as Spanish speakers, our close ties with Latin and Greek gave us a sense of superiority: we were…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Bring the words and the objects together, though, and the new story is much more convincingly human. Life no longer stops dead when Rome…

— Michael Pye

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy…

— George Orwell

“With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.”

— Miguel de Cervantes

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

— Sanford I. Weill

“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat up. It…

— Charles Wright

“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a rich tradition…

— Kory Stamper

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

“Language, be it remembered, is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,…

— John Pollack

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram