Aids Quote by Christopher Logue

In our society, more and more, people are running around offended by syllables, even. People are afraid to say anything. It reminds me of…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

— Jane Austen

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is

— George Carlin

Syllables govern the world.

— George Bernard Shaw

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become…

— Douglas Adams

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than…

— James Fenton

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

— Saint Augustine

As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open…

— Alexander Pope

End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound…

— Anne Stevens

“This accounted not only for the habit of abbreviating whenever possible, but also for the almost exaggerated care that was taken to make every…

— George Orwell

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on…

— Arca