Grammar Quotes · Page 13

I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any…

— James Frey

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

— Sarah Waters

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever…

— Mordecai Richler

A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.

— Artemas Ward

I am one of three sisters and went to an all-girls grammar school so I'm used to being around girls.

— Nadine Coyle

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

— Moliere

Statistics is the grammar of science.

— Karl Pearson

“She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, she misses out…

— Joe Dunthorne

“There’s a rumor it seems involving the finance minister. He’s supposed to resign any time now,” she said. “Some kind of scandal…

— Don DeLillo

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

— Tony Parsons

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the…

— H. L. Mencken

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

— Raymond Chandler

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

— Anonymous

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but…

— Hannah Arendt

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to…

— Winston Churchill

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

— John Piper

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and…

— J. M. Coetzee

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great…

— Roger Ascham

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

— Joseph Heller

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to…

— Will Schwalbe

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for…

— James Nicoll

“Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…

— John Fowles

It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules.…

— Jean-Pierre Serre

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures…

— Charlton Laird