There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“It’s the Queen’s English now,’ observed Peter mildly. ‘Is there a difference?’ asked Oundle rhetorically. ‘I fervently hope not.’ ‘There will be… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction. — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but… — James Agee Copy Share Image
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I have tried making the roles that I have played in my career look different with my attitude, diction or my beahviour. — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
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