Best Lynne Truss Sayings
- There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has… Been
- If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried… Best
- To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of… Apostrophe
- It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant… Agents
- Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your… Bow
- 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… Automatic
- In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed… Attention
- Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive… Accident
- 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. Book
- The rule is: dont use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. Commas