Famous quotes containing the words language and/or loss:
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself, whether to take it, or let it alone: a Frenchman never is.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)