Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.