Long Word

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or word:

“I ain’t seen the king’s face on a shilling for so long I’ve forgotten which George it is.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)

“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)