A Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Avoidance Beginning Careful First First Person Letter More Nothing Person Singular Than Vulgar

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Dorothy L. Sayers
British - Author
June 13, 1893 - December 17, 1957

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Emily Post

Every first thing is always a miracle. The first person you fall in love with. The first letter you receive. The first stone you throw. And in my conception of the novel, the letter becomes important. But what's more important is the fact that we need to continue to tell each other stories.

Colum McCann

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Brian Eno

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be

Diego Maradona

Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.

Diego Maradona

Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.

Karl Kraus

I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

Catherine Opie

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

Orhan Pamuk

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

William Congreve

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.

Wanderlei Silva

Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

Maya Angelou

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.

Charlie Norwood

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.

John Ruskin

Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.

Steve Erickson

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