“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”

“Language is a virus from outer space”

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

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

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

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

“Who could trust language?”

“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come...”

“Where do the words gowhen we have said them?”

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

“I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?”

“Names are powerful things.”