“What cares the world for the pultaceous wisdom of a word weevil,
or the dolesome dynamics of an etymological vermicule?”
—George Herriman, Krazy Kat
“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party,
confusingly vigilant about the middle,
and insultingly weary towards the end.”
—Charlotte Brontë, The Professor
“Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.”
—Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle