Grammar Quotes


Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein Grammar 123
Statistics is the grammar of science. Karl Pearson Grammar 113
Grammar is the grave of letters. Elbert Hubbard Grammar 112
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel Grammar 107
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. Scott Fitzgerald Grammar 78
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. E.B. White Grammar 76
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. Lewis Thomas Grammar 76
Sentence structure is innate but whining is acquired. Woody Allen Grammar 75
Spel chekers, hoo neeeds em? Alan James Bean Grammar 69
Grammarians dispute, and the question is still undecided. Horace Grammar 69
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. Carl Sandburg Grammar 66
Save the gerund and screw the whale. Tom Stoppard Grammar 66
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. Edgar Allan Poe Grammar 63
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. Robert Frost Grammar 63
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. Mark Twain Grammar 59
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. Tony Parsons Grammar 51
Grammar, which can govern even Kings. Moli Grammar 47

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