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Phrases Quotes - Page 11

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.

William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.654, Wordsworth Editions

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.

Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company