Grammar Quotes

312 quotes by 255 authors

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking… — Margaret Atwood
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to… — Dave Brubeck
It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic… — Noam Chomsky
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will… — Louis Aragon
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. — W. Somerset Maugham
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages… — Jacob Bronowski
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a… — Robert Orben
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. — Mark Twain
Everything bows to success, even grammar. — Victor Hugo
Grammar, which can govern even Kings. — Moliere
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. — George Bernard Shaw
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. — William Safire
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. — Laurence Sterne
Grammar is the grave of letters. — Elbert Hubbard

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