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.
—Winston Churchill
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
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
—William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
—William Shakespeare
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
—William Shakespeare
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes: "No hablo inglés.
—Ronnie Shakes
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vince Lombardi
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
—Stephen King
In this country "American" means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
—Toni Morrison
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
—Will Rogers
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
—Samuel Johnson
Living in a vacuum sucks.
—Adrienne E. Gusoff
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
—Peter Ustinov