Quotes On Language

Language control and political correctness have become the modern-day crossbow for Team Left and they are wielding their weaponry without conscience.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.