Figure Of Speech Quotes

“A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.”
― Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“I have no doubt that you could have flung bricks by the hour in England's most densely populated districts without endangering the safety of a single girl capable of becoming Mrs. Augustus Fink-Nottle without an anaesthetic.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves

“Literary devices are to literature what salt is to food, sugar is to cake, fragrance is to a rose, and the soul is to the body!”
― Elizabeth Dennings, By the River Mandovi