Language Quote by John Hookham Frere

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.

— John Hookham Frere

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

— Emile M. Cioran

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

— George Carlin

We must plow through the whole of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

— Colin Wilson

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis…

— Thomas Davis

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

— Antonin Artaud

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

— Anonymous

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

— Hippocrates

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content…

— Edward Sapir