Semicolon Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

• It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you… — Lewis Thomas
• Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It… — George Will
• I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. — Truman Capote
• She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation,… — Helen Hodgman
• The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end… — Jim Sheeler
• I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary
• If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the… — Roy Peter Clark
• Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and… — Lewis Thomas
• What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the… — Lynne Truss
• I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after… — Ursula K. Le Guin
• How hideous is the semicolon. — Samuel Beckett
• A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and… — Pico Iyer
• God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along… — Eric Weiner
• 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

Who Wrote These Semicolon Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Semicolon Quotes as follows:

• 2 Semicolon Quotes by Lynne Truss
• 2 Semicolon Quotes by Lewis Thomas
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Samuel Beckett
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Pico Iyer
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Eric Weiner
• 1 Semicolon Quote by George Will
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Truman Capote
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Helen Hodgman
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Jim Sheeler
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Brian P. Cleary
• 1 Semicolon Quote by Roy Peter Clark