Grammar Quotes

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Morta...

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy somet...

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of...

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do the...

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man ...

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or moth...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note t...

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in lov...

Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from co...

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all dow...

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Stupid English.""English isn't stupid," I say."Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. F...

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and tr...

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

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-...

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you sa...

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have ...

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a boo...

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a soci...

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for B...

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a ...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phr...

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ...

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war ...

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years ...

Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never spli...

Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of "Remember to never spli...

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.