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Grammar Quotes

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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
Adi Shankara

When the final bell tolls, Grammar will be powerless.
Authors on Grammar Quotes: Noam Chomsky Stephen King Mark Twain Charlton Laird Moliere Daniel Handler Joan Didion Ferdinand de Saussure Thomas Wentworth Higginson Elbert Hubbard Jeffrey Gitomer Octavio Paz William E. Gladstone Amos Bronson Alcott Muriel Barbery Laurence Sterne Robert Hooke Adi Shankara Maurice Druon Oscar Wilde Tony Parsons Emma Stone Jennifer Hudson H. L. Mencken William Shakespeare Andy Stanley Horace Benjamin Disraeli Michael Crichton Neal A. Maxwell Richard Turner Ernest Sosa Jorge Luis Borges
2.
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
Robert Hooke

Avoiding interference with theology, philosophy, ethics, government, linguistics, oration, or logic.
3.
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Raymond Chandler

4.
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
Nelly

5.
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
Muriel Barbery

6.
Grammar is politics by other means.
Donna J. Haraway

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

8.
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
Neal A. Maxwell

9.
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!
Miriam

10.
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.
Jeffrey Gitomer

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

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I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
Russell Brand

13.
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.
Jean-Luc Godard

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The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Swami Vivekananda

15.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
Frederick Buechner

16.
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
Willard Van Orman Quine

17.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

18.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
Robert Breault

19.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard

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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

21.
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

22.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere

23.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost

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He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.
Jorge Luis Borges

25.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson

26.
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Mark Twain

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

28.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Victor Hugo

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Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.
Andy Zaltzman

30.
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Artemas Ward

31.
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon

32.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
Michel de Montaigne

33.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott

34.
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.
Stephen King

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

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

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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.
Charlton Laird

38.
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
Emily Saliers

39.
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Isaac Goldberg

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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.
Charlton Laird

41.
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
Larry Wall

42.
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
Jennifer Hudson

43.
Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?
Daniel Handler

44.
scales are the grammar of music.
Frances Parkinson Keyes

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Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.
Hannah Arendt

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

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I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
Emma Stone

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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
William E. Gladstone

49.
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
Tony Parsons

50.
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
Joseph Heller