Literally Quotes

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...
Dead silence.
Literally dead.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“No! I had too many variables! Two of those variables were actually the same variable, so I revised the equation and then it all made perfect sense!" Ada was truly excited. "You seem truly excited, Lady Ada," said Anna cautiously.”
― Jordan Stratford, The Case of the Missing Moonstone

“The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.”
― Richie Norton

“Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that evoke a desire to mutilate more than the perceived misuse of literally.”
― Ammon Shea, Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

“No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.”
― Ammon Shea, Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

“Irony is a curious concept. Specifically, I mean the classical definition: that of a choice leading to an opposite outcome from what is intended. Many grammarians bemoan the word’s near-constant misuse—sec-ond only in dictional assassination to the way some people use the word “literally.” (Their use of which is ironic.)”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Any idiot can take any idiom literally.”
― John Adebisi