Abuse Quote by James F. Cooper

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

— Robert Graves

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

A language is a map of our failures

— Adrienne Rich

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

— Cynthia Ozick

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

— Galen

Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive,…

— Doris Lessing

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

— Bernard Pivot

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll

“The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to…

— KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD