“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The attacks on old words and the coining of new are the visible tip of the iceberg of change. — Michelene Wandor Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. "Live free or die." Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
“old words can be re-narrated in new words: all that was needed was empathy, a power and ability to embrace and to… — Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Copy Share Image
“He compiled lists of old words too – words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The old temporality is losing its effectiveness and moving into the background. Many people go on mumbling the old words, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
