Quotes in Language

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

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.

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.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.