Misattributed
Source: Concord Days
“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
Amos Bronson Alcott, her father, in Concord Days (1872), p. 124 : "Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. But if one does not stay while staying, better let him go where he is gone the while."
Misattributed
Anu Garg (1967) Indian author
The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg
“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Chicago Defender (28 November 1962).
Attributed
Variant: It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.
“Conservatives were planning before the word entered the vocabulary of political jargon.”
Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
About the Industrial Charter (Conservative Political Centre, 1947), pp. 6-7.
“Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
St. 1.
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
Context: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, О sovran Blanc!
“I would like to see the word 'nationalization' banned from the socialist vocabulary.”
Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden (1864–1937) British politician
The Daily Herald (15 October 1928)
Jorge Luis Borges book Other Inquisitions
"Kafka and His Precursors" ["Kafka y sus precursores"], as translated in Labyrinths (1964)
Variant translation: The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Other Inquisitions (1952)
Context: In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
“I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Helen Reddy (1941) Australian actress
On the incidents in her career in Las Vegas as quoted in "Reddy: Full Speed Ahead... and Back". Hawn, Jack, L. A. Times, 25 July 1987 http://articles.latimes.com/1987-07-25/entertainment/ca-1064_1_full-speed
