Language Quotes

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It’s all language, it’s all communication.

What I feel for you is at once the expression of language and the absence of it.

I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.

Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.