Henry Adams Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

  Henry Adams

  Truth, Mean, Men

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 31 (1907)

• He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

  Henry Adams

  Talking, Tongue, Language

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.112, Booklassic

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

  Henry Adams

  Art, Language, American Language

  1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

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