Cuttlefish Quotes

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 spurting out ink.

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.