When may we hope to see your Harvard lectures published sir?' an undergraduate asked the late Professor Austin. 'You may hope to see them published any time' was the characteristic reply.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

'I'm excited (after hitting for the cycle), but I guess it hasn't hit me yet. I'm only the second Mariner to do it and the other is Jay Buhner, who can't run.'

Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.