Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!"
Grammar quotes
Grammar
66 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini."
Octavio Paz
Poet, Essayist
"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Grammar is the grave of letters."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
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"Grammar, which can govern even Kings."
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"I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar."
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"Everything bows to success, even grammar."
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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
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"Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame."
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"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."
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression"
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"American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm."
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"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest"
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"I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar."
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"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school."
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"Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual."
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"Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking."
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"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."
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"Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable."
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"George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar."
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"The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation."
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". . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest."
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"Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday."
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"Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar."
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