Top 29 Henry Fowler Quotes
#2. Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
Henry Watson Fowler
#3. Love, he does not know this word, and worse, he does not know that feeling in his existence. ~Emily
Pet Torres
#4. An excessive use of exclamation marks is a certain indication of an unpractised writer or of one who wants to add a spurious dash of sensation to something unsensational.
Henry Watson Fowler
#5. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
John The Apostle
#6. After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
Henry Watson Fowler
#7. This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations
Ralph Nader
#8. Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
Henry Watson Fowler
#10. Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.
Henry H. Fowler
#12. That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.
Joanne Harris
#13. Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It's not my home town, but then, I don't have one. I'm a nomad ... a gypsy ... an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send me anywhere. That's where I belong ... anywhere.
Marc Curtis
#14. If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
Oprah Winfrey
#15. Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.
Henry Watson Fowler
#19. A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
Andy Rooney
#20. Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
Charles Henry Fowler
#21. The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
Charles Henry Fowler
#22. Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
Charles Henry Fowler
#24. The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
Henry Watson Fowler
#25. The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.
Henry Watson Fowler
#26. Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
Henry Watson Fowler
#27. He was going to show that the paradoxes were not excrescences; they were fundamental.
James Gleick
#28. Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
Henry Watson Fowler
#29. We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.
Henry Watson Fowler
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