“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)”
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
9 quotes“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Language is a virus from outer space”
Alfred Tennyson
2 quotes“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
Lewis Carroll
2 quotes“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”
David Mitchell
2 quotes“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Who could trust language?”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”
Carl Sandburg
1 quote“Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.”
Cassandra Clare
1 quote“We live and breathe words.”
E.M. Forster
1 quote“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”