Grammar Quotes

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

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

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock.

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

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.