Infinitives Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• ...to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before... — Douglas Adams
• 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:

• 2 Infinitives Quotes by Douglas Adams
• 1 Infinitives Quote by H.G. Wells
• 1 Infinitives Quote by Rudolf Flesch
• 1 Infinitives Quote by Ralph Steadman
• 1 Infinitives Quote by Anne Carson
• 1 Infinitives Quote by David Leavitt