Quotes About Language

Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't. Reserve the apostrophe for it's proper use and omit it when its not needed.... Avoid commas, that are not necessary.... And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.... If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is...

Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. And don't start a sentence with a conjugation.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.

On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling word and the working reader figures it out and savors it.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

Prior to the 1950's, very few people had ever heard of a good witch. The term was oxymoronic, like calling someone an evil saint.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,Figures pedantical.

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.

It oft falls out,To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

'Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with wordsSince I first call'd my brother's father dad.

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

Keep a good tongue in your head.

William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

A rhapsody of words.

Charm ache with air and agony with words.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.