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The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

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…

— John H. McWhorter

“Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control the flippers.…

— Neal Stephenson

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky…

— Richard Corliss

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the…

— Delphine de Vigan

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the 'Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do…

— Raphael Carter

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

— Shayne Silvers

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but…

— Richard Whately

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

— Dorothy Kilgallen

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson