Fancy Quote by Agnes Repplier

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

— Christopher Pike

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

— H. G. Wells

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have…

— Timothy Snyder

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

— Erin McKean

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

— Khalil Gibran

Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so…

— Anonymous

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in…

— Samuel Johnson

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges…

— Oliver Goldsmith

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer