Character Quote by Rachel Hawkins

“I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book,…

— The Harvard Lampoon

“A wicked tongue: Slander, gossip, cussing, sarcasm, poisonous tongue, bearing false witness, and murmuring.”

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

“Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.”

— Alexis Hall

“What is another name for a Thesaurus?”

— Steven Wright

“Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness,”

— Ben Carson

“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”

— Stephan Attia

“This advice has been given often and more compellingly elsewhere, but my specific piece of wrong procedure back then was, incredibly, to browse through…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.”

— Cynthia Hand

“I used intentionally compromised words because I knew no one would suspect a false bottom to the archaic pallets of shadings I applied.”

— André Aciman

“It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that. And I…

— Oscar Wilde