Beautiful Quote by Lynne Tillman

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous.…

— Lynne Tillman

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

— Howard Hodgkin

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

— Marcel Duchamp

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language…

— Margaret Wise Brown

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

— Ron Jeffries

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Hippocrates

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

— John Dryden