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.)
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."
Posted by: Night Writer | May 08, 2008 at 11:27 AM