Language Quote by Roland Barthes

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at…

— Roland Barthes

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

— Roland Barthes

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at…

— Roland Barthes

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

“If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be…

— Kim Thúy

“Languages can be powerful things. The stronger ones quite simply bulldoze the weaker ones, assimilating whatever is useful and discarding the rest. It doesn’t…

— Glenn Dixon

“I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I”

— Robert Lane Greene

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

— Alison Mosshart

The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is…

— Richard Cobden

“Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.”

— Thea van Diepen

“highly codified and formal foreign language known as French – a language which, according to many French-speakers, almost no one speaks correctly. In the…

— Graham Robb

“Your language reflects your character”

— Wendy Wang