Famous Language Quotes
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
In a world where differences abound, respect is the universal language that transcends barriers, opening the door to empathy and understanding.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.