Grammar Quotes

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

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

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

Grammar is politics by other means.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

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

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!

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.

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

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

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

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

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

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

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

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

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.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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

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

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

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.

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

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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

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

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

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

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression

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

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

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.

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

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

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.