Grammar Quotes
+3I don’t want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.
- George Bernard Shaw
+3I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain
+3Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken
+3Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
- Mark Twain
+2Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
- Artemus War
+1Grammar is the grave of letters.
- Elbert Hubbard
+1Grammar stops at love, and at art.
- Valentine Sterling
+1Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges
+1Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
- Moliere
+1Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
- William Safire
+1Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
- E. B. White
+1I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
- Benjamin Disraeli
+1If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison
+1Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
- Mark Twain
+1Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
+1Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
– George Eliot
+1It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
– Andrew Jackson
+1Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
+1If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
- Paul Harvey
+1Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
- William E. Gladstone
+1When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
- Raymond Chandler
+1To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.
- Otis Edwards
+1Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
- Joan Didion
+1Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
- Richard C. Trench
+1The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions and grammar.
- Michel Montaigne
+1I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1La grammaire qui sait re¤ genter jusqu’aux rois. Even kings must bow to grammar.
- Jean Baptiste
+1Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
- Michel Montaigne
+1You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
- Robert Frost
+1When a thought takes one’s breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence.
- Thomas W. Higginson
+1I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
- Carl Sandburg
+1Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P. J. O’Rourke
+1Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
— Jules Renard
+1From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
+1A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
- Barry Goldwater
+1For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Jonathan Swift
+1My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
- A.A. Milne
+1Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
+1Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
- E. B. White
+1Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
- Bronson Alcott
