Plain Language Quotes
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
