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Adjective Quotes by William Strunk, Jr.
- The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
- Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the…
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- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
- Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. — Ambrose Bierce
- Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake… — Ambrose Bierce
- Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. — Clifton Fadiman
- Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant
- Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse
- Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert