Grammar Quotes · Page 7

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

— Robert Hooke

“Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters.

— David Chiles

I type things into Google to see if I spelled them correctly.

— Anonymous

“I don’t correct anyone’s grammar unless they’re under five.”

— Mary Jane Hathaway

Grammar is important. For instance, commas save lives: Let's eat grandpa. Lets eat, grandpa.

— Anonymous

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

— Artemas Ward

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

— Tom Duff

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you…

— John Mayer

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in…

— Noam Chomsky

I was a copy editor. I loved it. I love grammar. I'm obsessed. I was a bartender. I worked in a cafe.…

— Pauline Chalamet

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to…

— David Ogilvy

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to…

— Cher

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks…

— Anonymous

I started to become more active and when I was at Auckland Grammar I went for the first time to the mountains.…

— Edmund Hillary

“Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we…

— Margaret Atwood

I do not worry or even think of spelling, grammar, paragraphing, or punctuation (except periods) at this point. . .In the early…

— Mary O'Neill

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I…

— Sarah Dunant

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and…

— Robert Frost

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

— Roger Ascham

“... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look…

— Andrew Elfenbein

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

— Michel de Montaigne

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language”

— Munia Khan

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

— Hisham Matar

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

— Emily Saliers

“Be careful of your spelling, if an o can make count cunt, what it might do to you.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

— Jim Gaffigan

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

— Anonymous

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

— Angela Rayner

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

— Joseph Heller

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

— Alexis Soyer

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

— David Starkey