Private Language

Famous quotes containing the words private language, private and/or language:

“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

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