Felicity Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple Download Open image “Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.” — Edwin Percy Whipple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Felicity Fluency Happiness Language Merit
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms. — Galen Copy Share Image
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“Laugh now, and laugh hard. For laughter is the bell. And when it rings, it cleanses the air.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on… — Erich Bergen Copy Share Image
Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
