Long Words Quotes
18 quotes by 14 authors
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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
— Martin Freeman
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I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think…
— Rick Sanchez
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
— George Orwell
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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible…
— Lynne Truss
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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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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,…
— George Orwell
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I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them…
— Nick Hornby
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For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
— A A Milne
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as…
— A A Milne
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There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that…
— Roald Dahl
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Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
— Lewis Carroll
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What are letters?†“Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read.…
— Neal Stephenson
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It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses…
— Barbara Mertz
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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe…
— Stephen King
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Well,†said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.†“What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?†said Pooh. “For I am a Bear of…
— A A Milne
Who Wrote These Long Words Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 18 Long Words Quotes as follows: