Quotes Tagged With :clich

Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence....

I do not see how my agreeing to marry a scruffy old brute will have the power to keep a fire-breathing....

Washingtonians love the "So-and-so is spinning in his grave" cliché. Someone is always speculating about....

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take....

Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the....

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink,....

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure,....

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way....