William Dwight Whitney quotes

“Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.”
-- William Dwight Whitney

Source : William Dwight Whitney (1867). “Language and the Study of Language Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science William Dwight Whitney”, p.150

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“We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.”

“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”

“I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.”

“All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.”

Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

“In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.”

“It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.”

“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”

“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

“When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.”

“Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.”