Quotes by J L Austin

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

#J L Austin

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character...

#J L Austin

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in...

#J L Austin

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back...

#J L Austin

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such...

#J L Austin

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me...

#J L Austin

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

#J L Austin

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

#J L Austin