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Grammar Quotes and Sayings

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

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

When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Raymond Chandler

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
George Eliot

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.
Jack Lynch

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard C. Trench

It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
Anthony Burgess

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language… the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
R�my de Gourmont

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

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgement, and education — Sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

Grammar stops at love, and at art.
Valentine Sterling

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
Owens Lee Pomeroy

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
Attributed to Winston Churchill

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard

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

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
Matt Groening

I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
Vanna Bonta

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
William Somerset Maugham

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions and grammar.
Michel de Montaigne

When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
Artemus War

GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
Ambrose Bierce

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. – Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
Horace

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard C. Trench

Grammar is not a time of waste.
Nancy Cartwright

The misconceptions about grammar posted on the ‘Net are at least as bad as the misconceptions about evolution, presumably because American public schools do an equally bad job of teaching both.
Raphael Carter

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