Grammar Quotes

Grammar Quote of the day

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Whenever you correct someone's grammar just remember that nobody likes you.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

Grammar is politics by other means.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

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

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.