Perspicuity Quotes

#1. The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Richard Whately

#2. It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

Edmund Burke

#3. No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

Max Stirner

#4. Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.

Lynne Truss

#5. It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

Jeremy Collier

#6. To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

William Hazlitt

#7. Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Thomas Fuller

#8. Yet if strict criticism should till frown on our method, let candor and good humor forgive what is done to the best of our judgment, for the sake of perspicuity in the story and the delight and entertainment of our candid reader.

Sarah Fielding

#9. I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

Sally Field

#10. Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."
He laughs.

Lauren DeStefano

#11. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Oscar Wilde

#12. Because if I'm weird
And ostracized and friendless
It's not personal.

Gabrielle Prendergast

#13. The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

Richard Carrier

#14. You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#15. It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Dan Simmons

#16. You are mine, body and soul.

Lana Sky

#17. We travelers slept under the stars once more.

Julie Berry

#18. I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

David Attenborough

#19. I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

Glenda Millard

#20. Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases - less government.

Herbert Spencer

#21. I don't know if you want to see the Everybody Loves Raymond guy in a nude scene.

Ray Romano

#22. To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Ian Botham

#23. I punched Sawyer's number into my phone and waited while it rang.
"Hello." The cautious tone in his voice told me he knew I'd just found out.
"Meet me on the field, now," I growled.
"You know," he replied in a weary tone.
"Yeah, you stupid fuck, I know.

Abbi Glines

#24. The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous. (VII)

Aristotle.