Quotes Tagged With :pedant

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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