Figures Of Speech Quotes

But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

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

Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a face. “I rather kiss a copperhead.” I grabbed the envelop from his hand. He laughed and held up his hands in surrender. Don’t worry. It was only a figure of speech.

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

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It’s not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape…if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

It’s difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It’s not a figure of speech, not a joke, I’m serious.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

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

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