The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.