Consonants Quote by Isaac Newton

K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two…

— Ambrose Bierce

J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw,"…

— Ambrose Bierce

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

— Edith Wharton

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

— Blaise Pascal

'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

— David Mitchell

“the long vowel opening at the centre of a consonant world”

— Karen Solie

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand…

— John Crowe Ransom

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy…

— Parker J. Palmer

I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing…

— Paul Orfalea

A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that…

— Richard Ford

Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be…

— Jerry Spinelli

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge