Banal Quote by Robert Lane Greene

“Though it's true that (dictionary-maker Samuel) Johnson sometimes seem to feel that the language was in decline, he didn't rail against it with (Jonathan)…

— Robert Lane Greene

“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression,…

— Alain de Botton

“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck…

— Horace Walpole

“ '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 is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”

— Colum McCann

“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious…

— Chinua Achebe

“No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly…

— Simon Winchester