And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Most style is not honest enough.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.