English grammar Quote by Roald Dahl

“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

— Ernst Mayr

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years…

— B. F. Skinner

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules,…

— Bill Bryson

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All…

— Edward Sapir

There were grammatical errors even in his silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Grammar is like the air: someone higher up might try to set rules for its use, but people won't necessarily follow them.”

— Haruki Murakami

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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