Quotes about Vocabulary

It is crucial that we realize that grace in Paul's vocabulary is not just a divine disposition to pardon sin. It is also a divine power to work in us all that God requires from us.

There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.' His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.' You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at?

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.

As a child, when I came across a word I didn't know, I didn't stop reading the story to look it up, I just went on reading. And after I had come across the word in several books, I knew what it meant; it had been added to my vocabulary. This still happens.

The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the literature we give to our children, the more limited their capacity to respond, and therefore, in their turn, to create. The more our vocabulary is controlled, the less we will be able to think for ourselves. We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.