Turgid Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
— Quintilian
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
— James F. Cooper
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My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy
— Carol Ann Duffy
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
— Isaac Watts
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask…
— Bill Watterson
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful…
— Winston Churchill
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
— William Shatner
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Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
— Russell Brand
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Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit…
— Ben Elton
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I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you…
— Russell Brand
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Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I…
— Stephen Fry
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true…
— Tom Rachman
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The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to…
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Who Wrote These Turgid Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Turgid Quotes as follows: