Top Jargon Quotes
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
John M. Smith
Anne Stevenson 
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. 
63% of people like this quote
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson
60% of people like this quote
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
59% of people like this quote
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Eric Bentley
55% of people like this quote
I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.
John M. Smith
49% of people like this quote
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound
48% of people like this quote
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
Martin H. Fischer
48% of people like this quote
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
47% of people like this quote