Greek Quote by George Orwell

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“However differently we spoke the language, as Spanish speakers, our close ties with Latin and Greek gave us a sense of superiority: we were…

— Valeria Luiselli

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never…

— George Mikes

Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but…

— John Lukacs

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of…

— Ezra Pound

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge…

— Henry David Thoreau

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books…

— Virginia Woolf

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German aphorism, “the…

— Paul J. Silvia

“A good writer is likely to know and use, or find out and use, the words for common architectural features, like "lintel," "newel post,"…

— John Gardner