William Safire Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Safire
William Safire Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.
It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted
not my hand held by an old smoothie.
not my hand held by an old smoothie.
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
It's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.
Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace.
The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.