Grammar Quotes

312 Grammar quotes by 247 unique authors

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that… — Mark Twain
The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't… — C.S. Lewis
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. — Mark Twain
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned beneath… — Vikram Chandra
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism'… — Terry Jones
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret… — Mary Doria Russell
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit… — Janette Rallison
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. — Joseph Heller
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty. — Muriel Barbery
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. — Anthony Burgess
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. — Stephen King
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any… — Mordecai Richler
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their… — Ray Bradbury
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said… — Margaret Atwood
His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not… — Toni Morrison
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives… — Nicole Krauss
The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver… — Jodi Picoult
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel de Montaigne
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter

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