Adjectives Quotes

“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me.", 26 June 1956]”

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”

“The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.”

“Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.”

“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”

“Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.”

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”

“I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.”