Language Quote by Mak_786

A rather painful aspect of using an unknown language is that you dont even realize that you've offended someone unknowingly.

— Anonymous

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

— Jeremy Bentham

“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to involve another…

— Jeanette Winterson

The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We would not…

— Melchor Lim

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

— George Saunders

“Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“You can get by in the foreign language, you can communicate, but the pleasure of speaking to those who understand every subtlety and nuance…

— Erin Kelly

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose…

— Bayard Taylor

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

— Paul Auster

“Languages are not strangers to on another.”

— Walter Benjamin

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

— Ethan Hawke