Phrase Quotes

624 Phrase quotes by 519 unique authors

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. — William Shakespeare
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,… — James Joyce
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I… — John Green
For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,… — Ralph Ellison
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a… — Gabrielle Zevin
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them… — Philip Roth
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that… — Isaac Babel
why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. — Alan Moore
To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left. — Daniel Handler
Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter,… — Thomas Pynchon
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,… — Clive Barker
There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of… — Johnny Cash
There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit,… — George Carlin
He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you… — Mark Twain
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I… — Graham Greene
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. — Ismail KadarÃ©
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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