Language Isolates

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or isolates:

    “The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)