Common Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“We speak, and write, in one of the most diverse, gloriously ecumenical tongues on the planet. In English, there is a word or phrase…

— Jeff Deck

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

— Arthur Koestler

“Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with…

— William Hazlitt

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

— G. H. Hardy

“it is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.”

— David Grossman

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

— Toni Morrison

“You just say it. That’s how you say something that’s hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step…

— Lauren Blakely

“All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue.”

— Alice Randall

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but…

— Jean de la Bruyere

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

He can say, 'Feed me, I'm hungry,' in 27 languages.

— John Pinette

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

— Jacques Barzun