Quote by Charles Dickens

The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

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

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

— Bill Bryson

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the…

— Charlton Laird

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language…

— Bill Bryson

“The rules of grammar are just as important as the rules of engagement in war. Without them, we are barbarians,” I argued.”

— Shayne Silvers

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -…

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

— Hugh Gaitskell

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

— Anonymous