Bad language Quote by George Orwell

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy…

— George Orwell

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

— Donald Hall

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

— Tom Stoppard

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

— Victor Hugo

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

— Joseph Joubert

“Winds move but why must I... in this progression, is there really progress, to lay my words in slamming pronunciations to splatter here on…

— Teresa Fleischer

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

“The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a…

— Raymond Chandler

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

— Joseph Brodsky

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

— Jules Renard

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

— Suzanne Vega