Common Speech Quotes
- It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. — W. Somerset Maugham
- How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome… — James Thomas Fields
- Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on… — Marshall McLuhan
- Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. — Thomas Boswell
- Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. — Jasper Fforde