181 Quotes About Vocabulary

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Vocabulary is a systematic result of what other people paid for you to have and because people consume the first thing they see, they can’t think for themselves and are puppetted by corporations who make money off what you think is free, when it’s actually costing the precious rarity of your existence.

Why are we running after beautiful texts, perfect language, fancy vocabulary! Forget the Grammar, forget those perfect writers. Remember writers write from their heart, so just pen down your thoughts and throw away external fancies.

Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

We live at the level of our language.

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

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

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