Grammar Quotes
Posted by Nabil Medawar in Reference and Education, tags: grammar, Language, Logic, talk
- Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~ George Eliot
- Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ~ Mark Twain
- Everything bows to success, even grammar. ~ Victor Hugo
- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. ~ Winston Churchill
- Grammar, which can govern even Kings.~ Moliere
- Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. ~ Rosenstock Huessy
- Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. ~ Joan Didion
- Grammar is the grave of letters. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ~ Louis Aragon
- I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~ Mark Twain
- I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. ~ David Ogilvy
- I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ~ Mark Twain
- I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. ~ Carl Sandburg
- Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ~ Isaac Babel
- Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire
- Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ~ Octavio Paz
- The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
- Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ Elwyn Brooks White
- You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.~ Robert Frost
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