Subjunctive Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. — Mark Twain
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. — C J Cherryh
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins… — Robertson Davies
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --… — Lewis H. Lapham
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between… — Donna Leon
Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go. — David Mitchell
Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know the answer to… — Haruki Murakami
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. — Alan Bennett
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need… — George WBush

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