Synonyms Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms…
— Henry Adams
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Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.…
— Edmund Burke
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A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.
— Roy Peter Clark
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It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it…
— Martin Amis
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Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
— Theodore Sturgeon
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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
— Anne Rice
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.
— George Balanchine
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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness,…
— Charles T Sprading
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Good and bad luck are synonyms, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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There are quite a few synonyms of Contrast like Dissimilarity, Variation, Gap, Difference, Divergence, Unlikeness, Disparity etc. I want to add one more word in…
— Mohit Sharma
Who Wrote These Synonyms Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Synonyms Quotes as follows: