Quote by George Orwell
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual worker

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

Category:
great
Read Quote

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

Category:
good
Read Quote

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell

Category:
best
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Language
category

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Language

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication. – Author Unknown

Category:
Language

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan J. Perlis

Category:
Language

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didnt want to do anything that could reflect it. – Walter Salles

Category:
Experience

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. – Wilhelm Frick

Category:
legal

I am not obsessive about anything except my health. – Linda Gray

Category:
Health

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we dont subsidize, we dont want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. – Joe Biden

Category:
environmental