Grammar Quotes

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. (Carl Sandburg)
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar. View quote
John Henry Newman
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. View quote
Molière
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express. View quote
William Cobbett
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. View quote
E. B. White
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. View quote
Jeffrey Gitomer
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. View quote
Fred Frith
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens, to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it. View quote
David Cameron
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman. View quote
Robert Graves
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. View quote
Robert Graves
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. View quote
Paul Nurse
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. View quote
Beryl Bainbridge
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.. View quote
Richard Whately
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. (Will Durant)
The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. View quote
Octavio Paz
I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved. View quote
Peter Greenaway