Awkward Quote by John Clare

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I…

— E. L. Doctorow

You don't know what a semi-colon does... sort of like my act.

— Rob Cantrell

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

— George Bernard Shaw

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I…

— Abraham Lincoln

The rule is: dont use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

— Lynne Truss

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

— Lynne Truss

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up…

— Pico Iyer

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

— Truman Capote

“If colons and semicolons give themselves airs and graces, at least they also confer airs and graces that the language would be lost without.”

— Lynne Truss

A semi-colon is used when a sentence could have been ended; But it wasn't.

— Ramandeep Singh

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

— Brian P. Cleary

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one…

— Ursula K. Le Guin