Best Grammar Quotes

That's so typical. You won't steal a baby, but you're too lazy to conjugate. — Jim Butcher

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar. — Halliwell Hobbes

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce

Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

The best grammarian still can't write a verse. — Dagobert D. Runes

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture. — Susie Orbach

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. — Lynne Truss

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

With whom," Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five. — Sherry D. Ficklin

I sutured split infinitives and hoisted dangling modifiers and wore out the seam of my best flannel skirt. — Amor Towles

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement. — Jonathan Lethem

So," Chronicler said. "Subjunctive mood." "At best," Kvothe said, "it is a pointless thing. It needlessly complicates the language. It offends me. — Patrick Rothfuss

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it — Carl Sandburg

In my imagination, the Editor meditated in a mountain-cave, espoused the rules of grammar, and frowned upon speculative fiction. — Josh Malerman

Statistics is the grammar of science. — Karl Pearson

Logic no more explains how we think than grammar explains how we speak" [Minsky]. Logic — Ali Almossawi

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, — Charles James

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows. — John Dryden

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say " Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it. — M.F. Moonzajer

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. — Georgette Heyer

The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever. — Joss Whedon

You're barely older than me.'

'Than I,' he corrected me with a little smile. — H.P. Mallory

Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. — Mary Norris

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell. — Purushottam Muley

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! — Richard Harris Barham

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

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. — D.T. Max

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

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

Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe

I am reminded that while New Yorkers say "standing on line," the rest of the English-speaking world says "standing in line. — Jeffrey Steingarten

There was language everywhere; you could read the city, the city was a grammar — Jonathan Lethem