Grammar Quotes · Page 10

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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

— Jim Gaffigan

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

— Anonymous

Dear People of The World, I don't mean to sound slutty but use me whenever you want. Sincerely, Proper Grammar.

— Anonymous

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

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

— Jean-Luc Godard

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

— Noam Chomsky

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But…

— Charles Frazier

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…

— George Steiner

“As a professional speaker and author, excellent grammar is crucial in my profession. Without the proper use of words and language, I…

— Susan C. Young

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

— Roald Dahl

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of…

— Mary McCarthy

I'm not arguing for a return to the grammar school system, but there must be a way of identifying bright kids from…

— Andrew Neil

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.…

— Beryl Bainbridge

The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this…

— Bertrand Russell

“Not until 1761 did any grammarian settle on the eight that became the canonical parts of speech in English. He was the…

— Bryan A. Garner

“I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi…

— Anne Fadiman

The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“Learning about sex was a little bit like learning grammar. Every teacher you had assumed some other teacher taught you the year…

— Ann E. Imbrie

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar…

— Delphine de Vigan

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google…

— Steve Wozniak

I would rather cuddle then have sex. If you are good with grammar you will get it.

— Anonymous

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Ronald Oliver

In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.

— Patricia Mauceri

“#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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

— David Starkey

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

— Halliwell Hobbes

“a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing”

— Martin Luther

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

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

— E. B. White

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

— Anonymous

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

— Octavio Paz

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

— David Chiles

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

— Brandon Sanderson

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

— Robert Frost