Grammar Quote by Shayne Silvers

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

— Ben Aaronovitch

The grammarians are arguing.

— Horace

“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly, so rushed…

— John H. McWhorter

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

— Hugh Gaitskell

What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of…

— Dave Barry

“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure adequate expression,…

— Alain de Botton

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

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

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

“It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.”

— Irwin Shaw

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

“In order to speak and write the English language correctly, it is imperative that the fundamental principles of the Grammar be mastered, for no…

— Joseph Devlin