[O]rdinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word. --Austin, Papers 185.

[H]owever well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction…

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

[W]ords are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so …

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put …

The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass ove…