Contempt Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

— Ben Aaronovitch

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant…

— Gilles Deleuze

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

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

— Miller Williams

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

“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out…

— E.B. White

The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous,…

— Mary McCarthy

“Having said that the unliterary reader attends to the words too little to make anything like a full use of them, I must notice…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott