Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, ... Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Quotes

“There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon our thoughts.”
― Grenville Kleiser, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook

“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals. A great and noble people express themselves in great and noble words. Ruskin”
― Grenville Kleiser, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook

“The choice word, the correct phrase, are instruments that may reach the heart, and awake the soul if they fall upon the ear in melodious cadence; but if the utterance be harsh and discordant they fail to interest, fall upon deaf ears, and are as barren as seed sown on fallow ground.”
― Grenville Kleiser, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, ... Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English

“Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought,”
― Grenville Kleiser, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases: A Practical Handbook

“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals.”
― Grenville Kleiser, Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, ... Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English