Word-choice Quotes

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least...

Well,' said Can o' Beans, a bit hesitantly,' imprecise speech is one of the major causes of mental i...

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron"...

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely ...

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.