Grammar Quotes - Page 2

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.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

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

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

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.

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