Malapropism Quotes (7 quotes)

“We have no way of knowing what words you are going to misuse, so we cannot offer you a list. What we can offer, though, is a test that you yourself can apply to any word, whenever you are in doubt.

A Test: Do I Know This Word?
Ask yourself: 'Do I know this word?'
If the answer is no, then you do not know it.”
― Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide

tags: funny, malapropism, vocabulary, writing

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“For the people of my country," Renato said, "water is everything: love, life, religion... even God."

"It is like that for me too," I said. "In English we call that a metaphor."

"Of course," said Renato, "and water is the most abundant metaphor on earth.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat

tags: life, malapropism, metaphor, water

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“Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: absorbed, arrogance, arrogant, attitude, beauty, biological, conclusion, decay, deficiency, dirty, disease, engrossed, fact, fear, fear-beauty, flaw, futile, futility, girls, hate, human-nature, infatuation, intestine, life, loophole, malapropism, michael-bassey-johnson, nature, prejudice, pride, private-life, proud, public, rag, ravish, ravishing, rush, science, truth, unwanted, vanity, woman, women, worthless

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“It's an erectoral vote.... it doesn't mean dick.”
― Robin Reardon, The Evolution of Ethan Poe

tags: elections, malapropism

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“If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: death, disability, dying, fail, failure, impossibility, impossible, malapropism, michael-bassey-johnson, mistake, negative, positive, possibility, possible

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“I see you like animals," Marlena commented.
"Yeah," he answered back. "I'm a regular Francis of Isuzu.”
― James Hold, In the Footsteps of Cthulhu

tags: malapropism

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“Include me out.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

tags: hollywood, malapropism

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