England Quote by Julius Caesar Scaliger

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted…

— Alberto Manguel

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

— Thomas Carlyle

“According to the thesaurus... and according to me... there are over thirty different meanings and substitutions for the word mean. (I quickly yell the…

— Colleen Hoover

There are so many words in the English language but I can find none of them to describe you completely

— Superman

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

— Rob Pike

The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

— Thomas Hardy

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

— Philip Wollen

Hard words are for fools and cowards.

— Joe Abercrombie

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

— Thomas Jefferson

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper