Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all…

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

— Jane Austen

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in…

— Sun Myung Moon

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes…

— Brian P. Cleary

“...the struggle for grammatical uprightness begins not on the printed page, but in the soul.”

— Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ¦ Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Anonymous

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules,…

— Bill Bryson

“I think you're cute and grammatical, too.”

— Becky Albertalli

“Whenever I see a grammatical error in my writing I feel like I'm standing in Central Park naked.”

— Rae

A lot of people have agencies to handle their social media, but I handle everything myself. That's why there are a lot of grammatical…

— Varun Dhawan

Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy…

— Thomas Jefferson

Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very…

— Peter Farb

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

— Winston Churchill

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

— Robertson Davies