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"We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
Society
"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."
Virtue
"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage
"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life
"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual
"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."
Emotion
"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
Knowledge
"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
Language
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