Quotes About Language

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

This era of political correctness out there needs to go.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

I hate political correctness.

Political correctness kills discussion.

Political correctness, to me, is an enemy.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I think political correctness is a moving line.

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

The core problem in our society is political correctness.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

I just think political correctness is crap.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

Political correctness is evil.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.