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
Language Exerts Hidden Power, Like A Moon On The Tides.
- Rita Mae Brown
I Understand A Fury In Your Words,But Not The Words.
- William Shakespeare
Words Calculated To Catch Everyone May Catch No One.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The Great Thing About Human Language Is That It Prevents Us From Sticking To The Matter At Hand.
- Lewis Thomas
Great Literature Is Simply Charged With Meaning To The Utmost Possible Degree.
- Ezra Pound
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
Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words Best Of All.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Words Are The Physicians Of The Mind Diseased.
- Aeschylus
Man Invented Language To Satisfy His Deep Need To Complain.
- Lily Tomlin
Words Have A Longer Life Than Deeds.
- Pindar
A Man Thinks That By Mouthing Hard Words He Understands Hard Things.
- Herman Melville
Do Not Accustom Yourself To Use Big Words For Little Matters.
- Samuel Johnson
Language Is The Source Of Misunderstandings.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Deeds, Not Words Shall Speak Me.
- John Fletcher
Drawing On My Fine Command Of The English Language, I Said Nothing.
- Robert Benchley
Think Like A Wise Man But Communicate In The Language Of The People.
- William Butler Yeats
Words Ought To Be A Little Wild For They Are The Assaults Of Thought On The Unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
Grasp The Subject, The Words Will Follow.
- Cato the Elder
They Have Been At A Great Feast Of Languages, And Stolen The Scraps.
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
For Me, Words Are A Form Of Action, Capable Of Influencing Change.
- Ingrid Bengis
No One Has A Finer Command Of Language Than The Person Who Keeps His Mouth Shut.
- Sam Rayburn
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