Language Quote by Monique Truong

“That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You could fool…

— Robin Wasserman

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw…

— Ben Aaronovitch

“ 'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

“Words are powerful and dangerous things - uttered in an instant, yet lasting for an age. They touch the heart, change the mind, and…

— Shae Ford

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell

“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed…

— Aldous Huxley