Arguing Quote by Horace

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

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

— Shayne Silvers

“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship…

— Ronald Langacker

1 Rule during arguments: If you're losing, start correcting their grammar.

— Anonymous

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical…

— D. A. Carson

“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

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

— Hugh Gaitskell

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz