Quotes Tagged With :cliches

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me....

To have luck and fail to act on it is tantamount to not having luck at all. In fact, it was worse. Barnes....

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of....

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise,....

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither....

Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of....

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

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when....