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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: Charlton Laird Moliere Stephen King Noam Chomsky Mark Twain Russell Brand Willard Van Orman Quine Jean-Luc Godard Robert Frost Nelly Thomas Wentworth Higginson Daniel Handler Joan Didion Ferdinand de Saussure William E. Gladstone Elbert Hubbard Jeffrey Gitomer Octavio Paz Robert Hooke Amos Bronson Alcott Muriel Barbery Laurence Sterne Tony Parsons Adi Shankara Maurice Druon Oscar Wilde William Shakespeare Emma Stone Jennifer Hudson H. L. Mencken Andy Stanley Horace Richard Turner
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.
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
Willard Van Orman Quine

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

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

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Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere

19.
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

20.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard

21.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

22.
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

23.
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Artemas Ward

24.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost

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

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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

27.
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

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Victor Hugo

30.
Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.
Andy Zaltzman

31.
Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
Carlo Grante

32.
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon

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

34.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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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

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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

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

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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

40.
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
Nancy Mairs

41.
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
Susan Sontag

42.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Noam Chomsky

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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

44.
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Isaac Goldberg

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

46.
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
Larry Wall

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

48.
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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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