Books Quote by Alfred Hitchcock Download Open image “Puns are the highest form of literature.” — Alfred Hitchcock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Form Funny Literature Pun
“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Puns are the lowest form of humor,” he proclaimed the cliché proudly. “Shakespeare used puns,” I observed. “You are not Shakespeare.” I had to… — Hamish De'Lamet Copy Share Image
I did a theatrical performance about puns. Really it was just a play on words. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,” — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“All progress, ultimately, is the result of playing with ideas and seeing new ways of connecting existing knowledge in such a way that the… — John Pollack Copy Share Image
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
