Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.
