Figures Of Speech Quotes

“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”
― Trevanian, Shibumi

“Alliteration seems to offend people.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

“No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet."
"Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally."
"I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hexed

“Dou comigo a pensar se figuras de estilo não serão, afinal, as silhuetas dos corpos humanos que tão ardentemente desejamos ou abominamos.
I find myself wondering if figures of speech are not, after all, the silhouettes of human bodies which we so ardently desire or abhor.”
― Victor Eustáquio

“The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“The sisters were flitting like butterflies around flowers from one husband to another.”
― Godwin Inyang, Gamblers Make Better Lovers

“But now, even in those clothes that were once very tight around her, she now looked like nothing more than a skeleton draped in a maternity gown.”
― Godwin Inyang, Gamblers Make Better Lovers

“Powered by the literalization of lyric personification into narrative event, a humanoid robot may wake up fully sentient and human (only to decide, preferring reverie, to fall asleep again).”
― Seo-Young Chu

“They are not wisdom
or freedom or history.
They are not what’s lost.
They are nothing but wild geese.
I can hear them everywhere,
wings pushing down metaphor.”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything