42 Quotes About Word-choice

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

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

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

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.