Digression Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!” — Jeet Thayil
• The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing… — Marcel Proust
• Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. — Ray Bradbury
• Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses.… — J D Salinger
• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P.J. O'Rourke
• And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. — Robert Burns

Who Wrote These Digression Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Digression Quotes as follows:

• 1 Digression Quote by Jeet Thayil
• 1 Digression Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Digression Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Digression Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1 Digression Quote by Ray Bradbury
• 1 Digression Quote by J D Salinger
• 1 Digression Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Digression Quote by Robert Burns