Grace Quote by Lynne Truss

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

— John Clare

“What the semicolon’s anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate…

— Lynne Truss

“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a…

— Victor Klemperer

For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's…

— Claire Messud

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Brian P. Cleary

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 have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, “I should have used fewer semicolons” – and although I…

— Lynne Truss

“Semicolon, you dolt!”

— Jean Shepherd

“Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!”

— Hal Lindsey

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

— Ramandeep Singh

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa