💬 SenQuotes.com

Grammar Quotes

1.
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 Noam Chomsky Stephen King Swami Vivekananda Artemas Ward Donna J. Haraway Miriam Frances Parkinson Keyes Robert Breault Carlo Grante Joseph Joubert Hannah Arendt Raymond Chandler Jean-Luc Godard Russell Brand Willard Van Orman Quine Nelly Robert Frost 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
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.
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.
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

27.
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

28.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

32.
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.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
Michael Crichton

38.
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

39.
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
H. L. Mencken

40.
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

41.
I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.
Joan Didion

42.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

43.
In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.
Nancy Mairs

44.
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

45.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Noam Chomsky

46.
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Isaac Goldberg

47.
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

48.
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
Larry Wall

49.
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.
Jennifer Hudson

50.
Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?
Daniel Handler