Funny Quote by Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

— Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is a thousand times better than exaggeration.

— Steve Carell

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

— George Will

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where…

— George Orwell

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

— David Ogilvy

Use soft words and hard arguments.

— English Proverb

“Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by…

— Anonymous

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English…

— James Fallows

Use soft words in hard arguments.

— Henry George Bohn

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately