12 Quotes by Henry Watson Fowler

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

The writer’s Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend “We are not amused” hanging from it.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.