James Thurber Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

  James Thurber

  Sex, Shadow, Lines

  1961 Of English. Lanterns and Lances,'Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dreams'.

• My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

  James Thurber

  Lying, Expression, Giving

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

• I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

  James Thurber

  Hate, Expression, Language

  James Thurber (1994). “Ninety-two Stories”, Outlet

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