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Mark Forsyth quotes: Love is nothing because those who do something for the love of it do it for nothing.

Love is nothing because those who do something for the love of it do it for nothing.

Mark Forsyth quotes: So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.

So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.

Mark Forsyth quotes: After all, fiction is only fact minus time.

After all, fiction is only fact minus time.

Mark Forsyth quotes: The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.

The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.

Mark Forsyth quotes: A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads.

Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads.

Mark Forsyth quotes: So just to recap, polyptoton is a favorite of Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon.

So just to recap, polyptoton is a favorite of Jesus, Shakespeare, and John Lennon.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.

Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Most people can improvise in unrhymed dactyls for hours. It's just that you lose all your friends if you do.

Most people can improvise in unrhymed dactyls for hours. It's just that you lose all your friends if you do.

Mark Forsyth quotes: It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.

It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.

Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Oxygen was called flammable air for a while, but it didn't catch on.

Oxygen was called flammable air for a while, but it didn't catch on.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

Mark Forsyth quotes: A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat.

A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat.

Mark Forsyth quotes: If you look back far enough, everything is stolen and every country invaded.

If you look back far enough, everything is stolen and every country invaded.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Mark Forsyth quotes: For though one antithesis is grand, a long list of antitheses is divine and is technically known as a progressio. It was a favorite of God and Dickens

For though one antithesis is grand, a long list of antitheses is divine and is technically known as a progressio. It was a favorite of God and Dickens

Mark Forsyth quotes: The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.

The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Who needs sense when you have alliteration?

Who needs sense when you have alliteration?

Mark Forsyth quotes: If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true.

If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

Mark Forsyth quotes: Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.