Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

Charles Dickens

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Agnes Repplier

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

Agnes Repplier

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Ben Affleck

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

We're not about to let them take the phrase

Brian Tracy

Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.

Daniel Handler

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

Barbara Kingsolver

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

Ayelet Waldman

There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

bell hooks

In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.

Adolf Hitler

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

Aristophanes

A truce to idle phrases!

Eliezer Yudkowsky

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

Albert J. Nock

The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases — as in the nature of things it must be — that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.

Clive Barker

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

Anatole France

Caress your phrase tenderly; it will end by smiling at you.

Daniel Tosh

They say money doesn't buy happiness. That phrase should end with 'just kidding'.

Alexis Korner

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

William Shakespeare

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

Whoever coined the phrase "Quiet as a mouse" has never stepped on one.

Ayn Rand

Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Jack Smith

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Christopher Hitchens

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.

George Eliot

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

Fred Durst

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

Howard Dean

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

Erica Jong

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

Ellen Hopkins

I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.

Harlan Howard

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

Maria Mitchell

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

John Gresham Machen

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.

Patti Smith

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.