Passive Voice Quotes

Passive Voice Quote of the day

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.