“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

“Language is a virus from outer space”

“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”

“London is a language. I guess all places are.”

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”

“Who could trust language?”

“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”

“Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.”

“We live and breathe words.”

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”