"We had got as far as this, when……" — Arthur Conan Doyle
"We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous."
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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383 Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up,…
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a…
— Hal Borland
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what…
— Larry McMurtry
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
— Guy de Maupassant
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
— Mark Twain
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Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat…
— Anton Chekhov
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Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
— Alain Ducasse
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