Written Language Quotes

Written Language Quote of the day

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.