Quotes About Solecism

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

Riled by pedantic reviewers in search of a solecism, Proust said that there was no correctness this side of originality.