Quotes on Grammar

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

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

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

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

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

And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life. We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture.

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

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.