Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar,… — Hannah Arendt
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Unknown Author
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you,… — Unknown Author
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a… — Ron Carlson
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. — D. T. Max
Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you… — Robert Frost
My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not… — Unknown Author
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. — Ferdinand de Saussure
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. — Elwyn Brooks White
You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film… — Peter Bogdanovich
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing. — Adi Shankara
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your… — Stephen King
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. — Robert Graves
Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, — Dave Barry
Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II. — Dave Barry
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them.… — Colum McCann
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to… — Janet Burroway
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience. — Nancy Mairs

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