Quote of the Week

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 cuttlefish squirting out ink.

--George Orwell

(One is tempted to add that one can usually delete "as it were," but let's let Orwell be Orwell.)

Comments

[Night Writer]

Ah, the Brits are always so refined; methinks it's the accent. Perhaps this quote was the original thought behind "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullsh*t."