Quotes About Metonymy

#1. Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Joshua Cohen

#3. The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Robert Grudin

#4. I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

Jose Gonzalez

#5. Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.

Kishore Bansal

#6. Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca The Younger

#7. It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Jefferson Davis

#8. She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Theodore Sturgeon

#10. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

William Faulkner

#11. A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. From a labour point of view, there are practically three races, the Malays the Chinese and Tamils. By nature, the Malay is an idler, the Chinaman is a thief, and the Indian is a drunkard. Yet each, in his special class of work, is both cheap and efficient when properly supervised.

Christopher Hale