Richard Whately Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Long, Leaving

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.213

• The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

  Richard Whately

  Style, Firsts, Rhetoric

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.300

• Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

  Richard Whately

  Intellectual, Style, Energy

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