Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

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
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 â€” I donâ€™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 schoolmaâ€™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 â€“ A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who donâ€™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

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