Correctitude Quotes

#1. Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

George Will

#4. At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps, he would have killed himself, not in the bunker, but in a cosy little studio in Klagenfurt.

Martin Amis

#5. Believe in the magic

Rosemary Lynch

#6. I'll tell you one thing I learned from studying History, Kitty. As soon as you see your opponents are reduced to insulting you personally, you know you're on the way to victory.

Anne Fine

#7. Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

Robin Thicke

#8. Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

#9. No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

Richelle Mead

#10. Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

Anthony Price

#12. While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination,

Leatrice Eiseman