Infinitives Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.…
— H.G. Wells
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If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well…
— Rudolf Flesch
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
— Ralph Steadman
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the…
— Anne Carson
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And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire…
— Douglas Adams
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...to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before...
— Douglas Adams
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots…
— David Leavitt
Who Wrote These Infinitives Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Infinitives Quotes as follows: