Grammar On Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Grammar On

Grammar On Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Grammar On quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational. — Robert Lacey

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. — Ruth Rendell

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

What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else,
when the result is to wind up so far behind? — Philip Roth

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

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know. — Buffy Andrews

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? — Nigel Farage

And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'. — Mia Castile

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

Magic is like bad grammar; hang around it long enough, and it rubs off on you. — Brandon Sanderson

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

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

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness. — Jonathan Heatt

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly — Sara Novic

I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet. — Craig Lancaster

The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke. — Ben Aaronovitch

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. — Beryl Bainbridge

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Yes," she said. "'I Been Working on the Railroad.'There's just two things I'm worried about with that: the grammar and the use of slave labor. — Lorrie Moore

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions. — R.L. Trask

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. — Bertrand Russell

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet. — Ruadhan J. McElroy

Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit. — Stephen King

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

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. — John Clare

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

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