Grammar humor Quote by Lynne Truss

“In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of…

— Lynne Truss

“one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time;…

— Lynne Truss

The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is'…

— Lynne Truss

I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the…

— Lynne Truss

“the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: “For every apostrophe…

— Lynne Truss

“#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind of' was…

— Gavin Extence

“And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'.”

— Mia Castile

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.”

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

— Dave Barry

“I decided quickly that committing crimes against grammar was a hard limit for me.”

— Sophie Morgan

“There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark.”

— Martha Brockenbrough