Best Grammar Qoutes
312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors
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Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the…
— J R Ward
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The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
— Jacques Lacan
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden…
— Delphine de Vigan
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The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.
— John Green
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The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since…
— Martin Amis
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Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
— China Mieville
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Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
— Terry Pratchett
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I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food. Apparently not grammar food. Wow.You college…
— Rachel Caine
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Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you…
— Jasper Fforde
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We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
— Fulton J. Sheen
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...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
— James M. Barrie
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Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or…
— Muriel Barbery
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?
— Daniel Handler
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Grammar is politics by other means.
— Donna J. Haraway
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are…
— Roald Dahl
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I used to think things were the way they are for a reason, that there was some hidden meaning. I used to think that this…
— Delphine de Vigan
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
— Joan Didion
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When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of…
— Octavio Paz
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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all…
— John Green
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure…
— Adrienne Rich
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I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel…
— Robert Graves
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