Quote by George Eliot

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

— Scott Westerfeld

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like…

— Dolores Hitchens

“It’s the Queen’s English now,’ observed Peter mildly. ‘Is there a difference?’ asked Oundle rhetorically. ‘I fervently hope not.’ ‘There will be in time,’…

— Jill Paton Walsh

L-o-v-e's just another word I never learned to pronounce.

— 3OH!3

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may…

— Dr. Seuss

“The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple;…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Oft had I heard of Lucy Gray, And when I crossed the Wild, I chanced to see at break of day The solitary Child.…

— William Wordsworth

“Ooooooooh,” Orla crowed, galloping down the hall, stork-like. She traded her Henrietta accent for a gloriously snotty version of Old South. “Someone’s been hanging…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“No one but her uncle knew that under Fursey’s tutelage she could make her letters or that she understood Latin if it was spoken…

— Nicola Griffith

“...they wore their hair long like a poet who hopes that romantically flowing locks will make up for a wretched inability to find a…

— Terry Pratchett

“Vanity, thy name is crow. Which is funny because c-r-o-w is also how you spell kleptomaniac.”

— Hailey Edwards

The word Cunt was added to the dictionary to describe people like u..

— SouL