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Top 10 Henry Hitchings Quotes (2025 Update)

Henry Hitchings Quote: “Tradition has it that Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, preferred to speak French to diplomats, Italian to ladies, German to stable boys and Spanish to God. English he seems to have used sparingly – to talk to geese.”

1. “Tradition has it that Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, preferred to speak French to diplomats, Italian to ladies, German to stable boys and Spanish to God. English he seems to have used sparingly – to talk to geese.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “The Western impression of Africa and Asia was that they were hazardous and uncivilized, full of gargantuan lizards, men with the heads of dogs, eels many hundreds of feet long, and creatures like the monoceros, which was alleged to have a stag’s head, the body of a horse, and feet like an elephant’s. The.”

2. “The Western impression of Africa and Asia was that they were hazardous and uncivilized, full of gargantuan lizards, men with the heads of dogs, eels many hundreds of feet long, and creatures like the monoceros, which was alleged to have a stag’s head, the body of a horse, and feet like an elephant’s. The.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “The Dictionary contains the names of numerous card games: among them piquet, quadrille, ombre, basset, whist, lansquenet and.”

3. “The Dictionary contains the names of numerous card games: among them piquet, quadrille, ombre, basset, whist, lansquenet and.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “In Fernand Braudel’s chastening phrase, ‘Europe is an Asian peninsula.’3 It is a given that Europeans underestimate the scale and resources and history of Asia – and do so recklessly. By looking at English’s Arabic connection, we can begin to correct this. Sugar.”

4. “In Fernand Braudel’s chastening phrase, ‘Europe is an Asian peninsula.’3 It is a given that Europeans underestimate the scale and resources and history of Asia – and do so recklessly. By looking at English’s Arabic connection, we can begin to correct this. Sugar.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “In Eric Partridge’s book The Gentle Art of Lexicography, there is a story about an elderly lady ‘who, on borrowing a dictionary from her municipal library, returned it with the comment, “A very unusual book indeed – but the stories are extremely short, aren’t they?”’3.”

5. “In Eric Partridge’s book The Gentle Art of Lexicography, there is a story about an elderly lady ‘who, on borrowing a dictionary from her municipal library, returned it with the comment, “A very unusual book indeed – but the stories are extremely short, aren’t they?”’3.”

— Henry Hitchings

Henry Hitchings Quote: “Of the approximately 27,000 words identified in the OED as having first been used between 1250 and 1450, more than a fifth have French origins, and more than three-quarters of these are nouns.43 About half of all words in common use are nouns, and the introduction of new nouns – so many of them material – marks the discovery of new things, new experiences, new attitudes. Nouns.”

6. “Of the approximately 27,000 words identified in the OED as having first been used between 1250 and 1450, more than a fifth have French origins, and more than three-quarters of these are nouns.43 About half of all words in common use are nouns, and the introduction of new nouns – so many of them material – marks the discovery of new things, new experiences, new attitudes. Nouns.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “The history of prescriptions about English... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance. But it is also a history of attempts to make sense of the world and its bazaar of competing ideas and interests.”

7. “The history of prescriptions about English... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance. But it is also a history of attempts to make sense of the world and its bazaar of competing ideas and interests.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “Czech noun related to the German noun Arbeit and meaning ‘forced labour’, to signify a new type of ‘artificial’ being, assembled like a car and programmed to be of service to humans.14 This choice of word was inspired by a conversation with his brother Josef, a painter of the cubist school. It would become an emblem of the future’s potential. The.”

8. “Czech noun related to the German noun Arbeit and meaning ‘forced labour’, to signify a new type of ‘artificial’ being, assembled like a car and programmed to be of service to humans.14 This choice of word was inspired by a conversation with his brother Josef, a painter of the cubist school. It would become an emblem of the future’s potential. The.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “Dictionary he identifies ‘what ills the scholar’s life assail’: ‘Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail’. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate – the.”

9. “Dictionary he identifies ‘what ills the scholar’s life assail’: ‘Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail’. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate – the.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “On loof, literally ‘on rudder’, was a Dutch phrase spoken by the captain of a vessel when he wanted to steer a course away from a hazard such as a reef. It became aloof, a word that extended this idea of avoidance and evasion.”

10. “On loof, literally ‘on rudder’, was a Dutch phrase spoken by the captain of a vessel when he wanted to steer a course away from a hazard such as a reef. It became aloof, a word that extended this idea of avoidance and evasion.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “The answer lies in the Preface, where he explains, ‘Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authors not obsolete, or when they have any force or beauty that may deserve revival.’ag Significantly, the epigraph to the finished Dictionary is a passage on this very theme from the second of Horace’s Epistles; it celebrates the efforts of the prudent critic who weeds out undignified language and rehabilitates forgotten but elegant words.”

11. “The answer lies in the Preface, where he explains, ‘Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authors not obsolete, or when they have any force or beauty that may deserve revival.’ag Significantly, the epigraph to the finished Dictionary is a passage on this very theme from the second of Horace’s Epistles; it celebrates the efforts of the prudent critic who weeds out undignified language and rehabilitates forgotten but elegant words.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “In his entry under the verb ‘to antedate’, Johnson quotes the essayist Jeremy Collier: ‘By reading, a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.’ It is Johnson’s engagement with the past and his revival of a diffuse pot-pourri of materials that make the Dictionary such an unexpectedly vibrant work. At.”

12. “In his entry under the verb ‘to antedate’, Johnson quotes the essayist Jeremy Collier: ‘By reading, a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past.’ It is Johnson’s engagement with the past and his revival of a diffuse pot-pourri of materials that make the Dictionary such an unexpectedly vibrant work. At.”

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Henry Hitchings Quote: “The nineteenth-century clergyman William Barnes preferred wheelsaddle to bicycle and folkwain to omnibus. By the same token forceps would be nipperlings, and pathology would be painlore. Some of his new words recalled the language of Old English poetry: he proposed glee-mote in place of concert, and the wonderful cellar-thane instead of butler.”

13. “The nineteenth-century clergyman William Barnes preferred wheelsaddle to bicycle and folkwain to omnibus. By the same token forceps would be nipperlings, and pathology would be painlore. Some of his new words recalled the language of Old English poetry: he proposed glee-mote in place of concert, and the wonderful cellar-thane instead of butler.”

— Henry Hitchings

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