6 Quotes Tagged: word-choice

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?

"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least — at least I mean what I say — that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!"

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.