Italics Quotes

#1. When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.

R.C. Sproul

#2. As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#3. He could think in italics. Such people need watching.
Preferably from a safe distance.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

Andrew Vachss

#5. She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Henry James

#6. Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Oscar Wilde

#7. A few italics really do relieve your feelings.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#8. You might say she feels in italics and thinks in capital letters!

Katharine Weber

#9. He wielded verbal italics as if they were capable of actual bodily harm.

Gail Carriger

#10. Fate's book, but my italics.

Don Paterson

#11. He also seemed to speak predominantly in italics.

Gail Carriger

#12. I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

Judy LaMarsh

#13. Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Ann Beattie

#14. You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. While everyone was screaming in italics, the babies themselves seem to have done just fine. Despite their inability to do almost anything on their own, infants are far more flexible than they get credit for: within a few obvious parameters - food, shelter, love - they are astonishingly adaptive.

Nicholas Day

#16. Italics are like a rash -- you never know whether to ignore them entirely or whether the more you attention you give the more they spread.

Zanesh Catkin

#17. In this Postscript I distinguish references back to the revised text of this book by placing these in italics thus (262), from references to the works of other authors under discussion, which are thus (p. 162). account

E.P. Thompson

#18. How about we walk back? Through the cemetery?' One thing my mom had taught me is that it's difficult to refuse requests made in italics.

The Harvard Lampoon

#19. An image begins taking shape. Soon, however, it becomes diagonally deformed, like italics, and disappears like a flame blown out. Then the whole process starts again. The image strains to right itself. Trembling, it tries to give concrete form to something. But the image will not come together.

Haruki Murakami

#20. When I am a writer, I shall do parenthetical asides. And footnotes. There will be footnotes. I wonder how you do them? And italics. How do you make italics happen?

Neil Gaiman

#21. They were two superior eels
at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

Anne Carson

#22. Mental illness didn't really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.

Heather Sellers

#23. Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up.

Nicci French

#24. The night was electric - The night was in italics.

Martin Amis

#25. Everyone is so desensitised that the potency of artfully deployed italics has long been lost. It was good enough for H. P. Lovecraft, but apparently it isn't good enough for the modern world, filled as it is with obtuse bastards.

Jonathan L. Howard

#26. Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

Leila Aboulela

#27. If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday (Isa. 58:10, italics added).

Steve Corbett

#28. Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

L.M. Montgomery

#29. Like italics and hyphens, quotation marks are to be used as sparingly as possible. They should light the way, not darken it.

Eric Partridge

#30. Reg coughed repressively.Habit had made of the standard nouns and adjectives in his own vocabulary something merely conventional,like italics or points of exclamation.He sometimes found Laurie's conversation highly obscene,and would have voiced his disapproval to anyone he had liked less.

Mary Renault