Language

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
Children
English
Language
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
English
Language
Nothing
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc
History
Life
Effect
Language
Nationalism
Question
Religious
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Aubrey Beardsley
Language
Writers
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
Stephanie Beacham
Language
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
Innocence
Language
Pleasure
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
Love
Infidelity
Language
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
Charles Baudelaire
Religion
Language
Liberty
Man
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
Language
Practice
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Gregory Bateson
Language
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
Desire
Language
Words
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
Power
Forget
Language
Legislation
Speech
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
Love
Language
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.
Howard Barker
Language
Shakespeare
Theatre
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
Balthus
Language
Painting