Everyday Quote by George Orwell

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where…

— George Orwell

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Incontrovertible is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

— Ivar Giaever

“The could never have explained Bonaventure anyway because there is no scientific word for miraculous.”

— Rita Leganski

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

— George Orwell

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

— George Orwell

“We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of…

— Northrop Frye

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the…

— Elena Ferrante

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text has a…

— Mark Shea

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos. I find…

— Victor Eustáquio