Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything… — Frank Smith
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of… — Charles Frazier
Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you. — Jim Gaffigan
She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she… — Terry Pratchett
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. — Frederick Buechner
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar… — James Joyce
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax — Thomas Paine
Me fail English? That's unpossible. — Matt Groening
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is… — Stephen Shore
I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar! — Miriam
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws — Moliere
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest — Michel de Montaigne
It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea… — Charles James
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets… — E L Doctorow
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every… — Edmund Hillary
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the… — Edmund Hillary
Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy.… — Norman Tebbit
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau

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