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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… — Quintilian
- The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper
- My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy — Carol Ann Duffy
- Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the… — Isaac Watts
- Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson
- Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist… — Winston Churchill
- The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me. — William Shatner
- Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. — Russell Brand
- Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton
- I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick… — Russell Brand
- Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the… — Stephen Fry