Aspersion Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article,…

— Joseph Devlin

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

— Thomas Paine

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

— Clifton Fadiman

“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.”

— Mark Twain

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the…

— Aristotle

“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the same man…

— Bryan A. Garner

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts…

— John Wesley Powell

The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

— Louie Gohmert

... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

— David Brooks

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family…

— Maya Angelou

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life,…

— Ben Jonson