Dead Word Quotes

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

— Anais Nin

“ A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live…

— Emily Dickinson

Conservation is now a dead word.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

— Evelyn Waugh