Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by… — Donald E. Westlake
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar… — Beryl Bainbridge
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. — Benjamin Disraeli
Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts. — Horace
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of… — Jorge Luis Borges
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism… — Will Durant
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules… — Noam Chomsky
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it,… — John Fowles
People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it… — David Duchovny
Forget grammar and think about potatoes — Gertrude Stein
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we… — Sarah Dunant
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature, a grammar in… — Norval Morrisseau
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements. — Amit Ray
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when… — William E. Gladstone
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an… — John Hume

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