John Simon

Critic

1925-05-12

Quotes by John Simon

• People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

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• The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the democratic lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.

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• The literary sensibility is geared to the timeless, that is, to the now only as an avenue by which all time can be reached.

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• Half the population (I guess) thinks that any plural ending in s requires an apostrophe, and the other half stands idly by without squirming, if, in fact, it even notices.

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