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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: Mark Twain Charlton Laird Moliere Stephen King Noam Chomsky Susan Sontag Andy Zaltzman Frederick Buechner Isaac Goldberg Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor David Sedaris Michel de Montaigne Larry Wall Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Saliers Joseph Heller Swami Vivekananda Artemas Ward Frances Parkinson Keyes Robert Breault Donna J. Haraway Miriam Hannah Arendt Raymond Chandler Carlo Grante Joseph Joubert Russell Brand Willard Van Orman Quine Jean-Luc Godard Nelly Robert Frost Ferdinand de Saussure Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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

7.
In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.
Neal A. Maxwell

8.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure

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

11.
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
Andy Stanley

12.
You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.
Jean-Luc Godard

13.
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
Russell Brand

14.
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
Swami Vivekananda

15.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

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

17.
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
Frederick Buechner

18.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

19.
I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

20.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
Moliere

21.
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

22.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Elbert Hubbard

23.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Victor Hugo

24.
Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.
Andy Zaltzman

25.
A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
Artemas Ward

26.
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

29.
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Mark Twain

30.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Benjamin Disraeli

31.
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

33.
Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
Maurice Druon

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

35.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
Michel de Montaigne

36.
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
Emily Saliers

37.
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

39.
Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
William Shakespeare

40.
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Mark Twain

41.
It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.
Ernest Sosa

42.
Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.
Stephen King

43.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
Laurence Sterne

44.
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.
Richard Turner

45.
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
Oscar Wilde

46.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
Joseph Joubert

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

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Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H. L. Mencken

49.
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
Noam Chomsky

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I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.
Joan Didion