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Grammar Quotes
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Why care for grammar as long as we are good? (Quote by - Artemus Ward)
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. (Quote by - A.A. Milne)
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. (Quote by - William Safire)
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. (Quote by - Rémy de Gourmont)
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. (Quote by - Isaac Babel)
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
When a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson in grammar seems an impertinence. (Quote by - Thomas W. Higginson)
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. (Quote by - Attributed to Winston Churchill)
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. (Quote by - Bronson Alcott)
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. (Quote by - Richard C. Trench)