“ He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. ”
- Ingrid Bengis- Copy
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“ Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 4K
“ No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. ”
- Sam Rayburn- Copy
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“ Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
- 248
“ Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 2.8K
“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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