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Lynne Truss Quotes

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren’t in love, and I thought that was quite important Picture Quote #1

Is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in Picture Quote #1

All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration Picture Quote #1

The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day Picture Quote #1

The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one’s peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad Picture Quote #1

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? Picture Quote #1

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She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place Picture Quote #1

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don’t care. We are all sneaks now Picture Quote #1

Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with Picture Quote #1

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it Picture Quote #1

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop Picture Quote #1

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? Picture Quote #1

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We are unattractive know - all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families Picture Quote #1

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result Picture Quote #1

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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren’t in love, and I thought that was quite important (Lynne Truss Quotes) Is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in (Lynne Truss Quotes) All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration (Lynne Truss Quotes) The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day (Lynne Truss Quotes) The problem is that it has become politically awkward to draw attention to absolutes of bad and good. In place of manners, we now have doctrines of political correctness, against which one offends at one’s peril: by means of a considerable circular logic, such offences mark you as reactionary and therefore a bad person. Therefore if you say people are bad, you are bad (Lynne Truss Quotes) What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist? (Lynne Truss Quotes) She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place (Lynne Truss Quotes) Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don’t care. We are all sneaks now (Lynne Truss Quotes) Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with (Lynne Truss Quotes) We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it (Lynne Truss Quotes) Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop (Lynne Truss Quotes) Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it usually aspiring gangsta rappers who set such store by designer labels? (Lynne Truss Quotes) We are unattractive know - all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families (Lynne Truss Quotes) If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result (Lynne Truss Quotes)

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