The history of prescriptions about English ... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance. But it is also a history of attempts to make sense of the world and its bazaar of competing ideas and interests. Henry Hitchings
It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,...
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Coco Chanel
I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall...
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Unknown
In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me...
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Dorothy Parker
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Henry Hitchings
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and...
Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.
There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.
How can it be men would put up with such an arrangement?'' Why do some people demand it of women but not of men? It is just another way of doing things. As my father would have said, folk will have their customs according to...
Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
