Long Words Quotes

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being.