Day Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of Europe and…

— John Jeremiah Bigsby

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ... and one…

— Benjamin Hoff

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and…

— Benjamin Hoff

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make…

— George Sand

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new…

— Booker T. Washington

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and one sometimes…

— Benjamin Hoff

“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

“There are those who eagerly learn another language to be one with another culture, then there are those morons who insist on the exclusive…

— Abhijit Naskar

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to…

— Thomas Sprat

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke