I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers

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

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

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.
George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam Chomsky

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
Lee Iacocca

Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats