27 Quotes by John Simon

If you love language, it will love you back.

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind.

It’s hard to lose when your standards are so low.

It’s wonderful to be hated by idiots.

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the “democratic” lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.