Distinguished Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly, so rushed…

— John H. McWhorter

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Grammar is the grave of letters.

— Elbert Hubbard

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Like many things that are claimed as Western inventions, grammar was first practiced in the East. According to scholars, there is a rich tradition…

— Kory Stamper