Wilson Follett Quotes
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It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
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Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
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No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
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The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
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Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
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The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
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