4 Quotes About Pedant

The world has plenty of words, but few are as fun or as useful as pedants. Pedants have an instinctive understanding of the rules of language, so they know exactly what to say to get their point across. They are quick to point out the rules, but slow to enforce them sticklers for grammar are always at the ready. So if you want to be a pedant yourself, or just have a few helpful phrases on hand, then check out this collection of pedant quotes.

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Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things. Fredrik Backman
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And if Francoise then, inspired like a poet with a flood of confused reflections upon bereavement, grief, and family memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress (sic) myself" - I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological (sic) relation; there is always the respect due to your geology (sic), " I would shrug my shoulders and say: "It is really very good of me to discuss the matter with an illiterate old woman who cannot speak her own language, " adopting, to deliver judgment on Francoise, the mean and narrow outlook of the pedant, whom those who are most contemptuous of him in the impartiality of their own minds are only too prone to copy when they are obliged to play a part upon the vulgar stage of life. Marcel Proust
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Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007. Cassandra Page