Quotes Tagged With :pedant

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy,....

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well,....

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings....

It’s my belief that all of the greatest tales ever told have been told in saloons. It was in such smoky,....

literally: This word should be deleted. All too often, actions described as “literally” did not happen....

Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.

And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief,....

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.....

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He....