Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… — Thomas Carlyle
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony… — H. L. Mencken
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. — Robert Breault
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus. — Tony Orlando
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic. — Nelly
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so… — Julie Walters
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and… — William Labov
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance,… — Ferdinand de Saussure
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago,… — Robert Burchfield
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics… — Terry Eagleton
Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach
There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. — Toby Young
Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar… — Nina Bawden
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every… — Anne Carson
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and… — Beverly Cleary
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did… — Steve Coogan
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? — Nigel Farage

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