Adjectives Quote by William Zinsser

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

— Ali Smith

“Adjectives not susceptible to modifiers are: certain, complete, devoid, empty, entire, essential, everlasting, excellent, external, fatal, final, fundamental, harmless, ideal, immaculate, immortal, impossible, incessant,…

— Harold Evans

Eschew all those beastly adjectives...

— Roald Dahl

“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light…

— Václav Havel

A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.

— Laozi

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of…

— Joseph Addison

A word is like an arrow once out of bow never returns !!

— Anonymous

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

— Isaac Watts

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up…

— Stephen Spender

Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them…

— Lewis Carroll