184 Quotes About Phrases

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

…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.

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

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

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

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'