Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and… — Joe Flanigan Copy Share Image
You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else. — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message. — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen at all. As in, “He literally… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“someday you're going to win the Nobel Prize for Being Incredibly Pedantic, and I'm going to be so proud of you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
