Simple Words

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or words:

“Well, I had gone and spoiled it again, made another mistake. A double one in fact. There were plenty of ways to get rid of that officer by some simple and plausible device, but no, I must pick out a picturesque one; it is the crying defect of my character.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)