You Have a Point There Quotes

“To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.”
― Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies

“When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication: and many, whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly or, at best, inconsistently.”
― Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies