Monosyllabic Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out…
— Heinrich Heine
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills…
— Boris Johnson
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Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic�
— Steven Wright
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RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply…
— Mark Morford
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Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?†“Yep.†Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in…
— Ilona Andrews
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Yep.†Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.
— Ilona Andrews
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We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge…
— Jonathan Stroud
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I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret…
— Jim Butcher
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There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
— Jane Leavy
Who Wrote These Monosyllabic Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Monosyllabic Quotes as follows: