Abandon Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism…

— Margaret Thatcher

“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases -- bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of…

— George Orwell

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

— Jan Garbarek

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous…

— Jonathan Swift

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful…

— George Eliot

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

— Rowan Atkinson

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary…

— Hillary Clinton

It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

— George Woodcock

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst…

— Alan Hollinghurst