Friendship Quote by J.D. Salinger

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

— Anonymous

“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).”

— J.D. Salinger

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention…

— Sarah Vowell

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

— Nicolas Chamfort

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

— John L'Heureux

“(...) and it will be easier, remember, to bend thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A few words which he wanted to emphasize were put into brackets or set off by quotation marks. My first impulse was to point…

— Jean Genet

The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated.…

— Richard Whately

“Cold in my professions, warm in ⟨my⟩ friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m⟨ight⟩ be in my power, by action rather than words,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.”

— William Strunk

“Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas--a whole grammar made of light, for words to hard to speak.”

— Jodi Picoult

Parenthesis-proud, bracket-bold, happiest with hyphens, The writers stagger intoxicated by terms, adjective-unsteadied

— Anthony Brode