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«They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?»
«The limits of my language mean the limits of my world»
«The language of the mystics cannot meet the language of science and reason, but nevertheless in a world that craves experimental testimonies it will be always one of the roads by which our contemporaries can find God»
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean»
«The eyes have one language everywhere»
«The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.»
«The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them»
«The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Flattery,
Language
| Keywords:
circuitous, conventional, flattery, habitude, offending, pleasing
«The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.»
«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.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Insincerity,
Language
| Keywords:
aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
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