229 Quotes About Grammar

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Cheers,' she said as I left, 'and don't forget you're seeing Matt and I on Monday.'I thought for a moment she'd said 'matineye', an East End pronunciation of 'matinee'. Was I meant to review it?Then I remembered Matt was the production editor.'Me won't forget,' me muttered as me went downstairs.

Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It's useless really.

A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.