George Sand Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

• Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

  George Sand

  Philosophy, Understanding, Style

• ... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

  George Sand

  Progress, Treasure, Language

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.139

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