“Semicolon, you dolt!”
“I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.”
“How hideous is the semicolon.”
“O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts”
“What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?”
“Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.”