H. W. Fowler
Quotes by H. W. Fowler
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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend We are not amused hanging from it.
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Those who are addicted to the phrase to use a vulgarism expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.
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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
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It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.
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