Merit Quote by Henry Watson Fowler Download Open image “It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.” — Henry Watson Fowler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Merit Needs Said Shortness
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself,… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
