Simple Vocabulary Quotes

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

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

I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's just the way I talk.

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

I preferred the simplest vocabulary.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.