181 Quotes About Vocabulary

There’s a time and a place for showing off the William F. Buckley vocabulary – but it’s probably not in a speech to your constituents, a sales pitch to a prospective client, or at a job interview.

I began to see all disciplines as creating a vocabulary, a set of tools for understanding human life in a particular way.

Nature itself a language with strong Vocabulary,each day it teaches us new Words.

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

There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary – “I can’t.” These two words are so definite that they leave absolutely no room for hope. Instead, I suggest we use the phrase, “How can I?

We have no way of knowing what words you are going to misuse, so we cannot offer you a list. What we can offer, though, is a test that you yourself can apply to any word, whenever you are in doubt.A Test: Do I Know This Word?Ask yourself: 'Do I know this word?'If the answer is no, then you do not know it.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.''Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.