Grammar Quotes · Page 7

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

— Bill Bryson

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever someone spells something wrong, I always look to see if the two letters are close on the keyboard.

— Ronald Oliver

Grammar is not a time of waste

— Nancy Cartwright

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

— Paul F. Tompkins

Acing a history test in seventh grade taught me nothing. Failing 95% of my grammar quizzes in eighth grade made me work…

— Harry Enten

Nothing better than a reality show where everyone's speaking English yet they still need subtitles to be understood.

— Anonymous

Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor.…

— Jack Gleeson

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by…

— Roald Dahl

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule…

— Bernadette Devlin

When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from…

— David Crystal

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

— Ivan Illich

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

— Tony Vlachos

Money doesnt grow on trees but it speaks beautifully without grammar.

— Vikrant Parsai

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take…

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

— Nancy Mairs

The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third…

— Stephen King

You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can…

— Tom Stoppard

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found…

— Mark Twain

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never…

— Ferdinand de Saussure