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
