Browsing Topic Best Language Words Quotes

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don’t come out as well.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.