John Hurt

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

British Actor

Anne Boleyn

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

English Royalty

Rebecca West

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Irish Author

The word 'hither' invites someone to move towards you, suggesting a direct and immediate action.

Sample Title 1

'Hither' adds a poetic or old-fashioned touch to language, often found in classic literature.

Poetic Flavor

Modern English speakers rarely use 'hither'. It may sound strange or humorous in everyday conversation.

Not Modern

'Hither' can refer to the closer part of something when you are on one side and something else is on the other.

Near Side

Use 'hither' to emphasize the immediate proximity or the side closer to the point of reference.

Physical Space

'Hither' can denote the area nearer to a specific geographical point when comparing two regions.

Geographical Context

 It could address a child or an adult. "From far, from eve and morning From yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither; here am I. Now — for a breath I tarry

Stephen Burt: Why people...

 very little to do with the show that we have this afternoon a show in which around Juma the cats were running hither and yon