Inspirational Quote by John Hookham Frere

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd 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

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

— Colin Wilson

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

— Hippocrates

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

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

— Lewis Thomas

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

— George Orwell

We must plow through the whole of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen