Comma Quotes

60 quotes by 55 authors

The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's… — Mary Norris
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it… — Oscar Wilde
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge… — Tom Stoppard
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's… — Terry Pratchett
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you… — Tracy Kidder
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. — Lyn Hejinian
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it. — Gustave Flaubert
What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter;… — Salman Rushdie
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and… — Pico Iyer
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… — Lynne Truss
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which… — Marcel Proust
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. — Oscar Wilde
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… — Lynne Truss
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. Youâ€™re… — Neil Gaiman
And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know. — Frank Bruno
Never place a period where God has placed a comma. — Gracie Allen
To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole… — Pico Iyer

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