Grammar Quotes

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

— Anonymous

“With grammar, it’s always something.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

Spell check bails me out on the constant.

— Daniel Yvars

Grammar is not a time of waste

— Nancy Cartwright

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

— Anonymous

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

— Moliere

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

I wish ppl wuld type on fb like thy rit in skool.

— Charlie Anders

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

— Sarah Waters

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

— John Dryden

Adding 'and shit' to the end of any sentence makes it sound cooler and shit…

— Anonymous

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

— Mark Twain

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

— Ernst Mayr

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

— Alexandre Desplat

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

— Anonymous

I don't know grammar but I do know that I love playing games on my phone.

— Paul F. Tompkins

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It…

— Whitney Houston

“And the stains would never wash out. That's what Lukas was saying. She would always have hurt her father. Was that the…

— Hugh Howey

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ian Carroll grew up in Melbourne, went to Carey Grammar and then studied political science at Monash University during the turbulent years…

— Norman Swan

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual,…

— Noam Chomsky

'Being Cyrus' is very young in language or grammar. I am not saying that these things can't be achieved in Hindi. All…

— Dimple Kapadia

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will…

— Anonymous

“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand…

— Andrés Neuman

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no…

— Peter Bogdanovich

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A schoolchild should be taught grammar--for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries…

— Anonymous

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license…

— Richard P. Feynman

Training is not just about opening your mouth and speaking about the topic. More than sharing what you know and showcasing your…

— Myron Sta Ana

Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student…

— David Foster Wallace

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses,…

— Stephen King

“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical…

— Richard Mitchell

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules…

— N.D. Wilson

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people…

— Ivan Illich

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin…

— Bill Bryson

“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In ways that certain of us are uncomfortable about, SNOOTs’ attitudes about contemporary usage resemble religious/political conservatives’ attitudes about contemporary culture. We…

— David Foster Wallace

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional…

— B. R. Ambedkar