Indefinite Language

Famous quotes containing the words indefinite and/or language:

    ... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.
    Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)