Grammatical Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader…
— Mark Twain
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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
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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force,…
— Sol LeWitt
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Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,
— Jack Kerouac
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up…
— Brian P. Cleary
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It strikes me that mathematical writing is similar to using a language. To be understood you have to follow some grammatical rules. However, in our…
— Jean-Pierre Serre
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Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
— Winston Churchill
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The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part…
— Stephen King
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To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or…
— Graeme Simsion
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If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is…
— Edward Sapir
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Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome…
— Stephen King
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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
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Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly…
— Peter Farb
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Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal…
— George Edward Woodberry
Who Wrote These Grammatical Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Grammatical Quotes as follows: