Quote by Samuel Beckett Download Open image “How hideous is the semicolon.” — Samuel Beckett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The American writer Donald Barthelme wrote that the semicolon is “ugly, ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly”.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I'd die, I turned… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“You may say it is all in my head, and indeed sometimes it seems to me I am in a head and that these… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Here he stood. Here he sat. Here he knelt. Here he lay. Here he moved, to and fro, from the door to the window,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
