American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

-Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
  In the Observer, 28  Aug.

Entitlement spendingöthe politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.

-Armey, Dick (Richard Keith)
  On President  Johnson's legacy to his party. In the US News &  World Report,12 Dec.

Oh! it is onlya novel!†only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineationof itsvarieties,theliveliesteffusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

-Austen,Jane
  Northanger Abbey, ch.5.

Theyare, after all, a language; they do not so much say things about as, theyare what is said.

-Banks, Iain Menzies
  Of clothes. The Bridge, ch.2.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'Le mythe, aujourd'hui'.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

-Barthes, Roland
  Fragments d'un discours amoureux,'De¤  claration'.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  The Rover, pt.2, act 3, sc.1.

We had intended you to be The next Prime Minister but three: The stocks were sold; the Press was squared; The Middle Class was quite prepared. But as it is!† My language fails! Go out and govern New South Wales!

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Jim'.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the L did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the L scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis11:9.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; Not many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ezekiel 3:5^6.

The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork.One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. Their sound isgone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm19:1^4.

   They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.

-Brautigan, Richard
  On  Japanese poets.  June 30th^ June 30th.

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

-Brautigan, Richard
  Trout Fishing In  America,'Prelude to the Mayonnaise Chapter'.

Russia is my home†and for everything that I have in my soul I am obligated to Russia and its people. Andöthis is the main thingöobligated to its language.

-Brodsky, Ioseph
  In the NewYork Times,1 Oct.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

-Brookner, Anita
  In the Observer,7  Aug.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.11.

On dit que la vie et la mort sont au pouvoir de la langue. It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Dedans.

Des mots sont arrache¤  s vivants a'   la langue de¤  funte. Words are taken alive from a defunct language.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  La.

I have called this stylethe Mandarin style† It isthe style of those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.20.