Alarmists Quote by Lynne Truss

“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

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the…

— Bill Walsh

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it…

— Bergen Evans

How hideous is the semicolon.

— Samuel Beckett

It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of one famous…

— Lynne Truss

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Brian P. Cleary

“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

It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if…

— Lewis Thomas

“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

“The semicolon is a much neglected beast”

— Randall McCutcheon

“the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something…

— Lynne Truss