All Authors Search Authors By Categories By Professions
WhatsMyQuotes.com Logo image
Home All Authors Search Authors By Categories By Professions All Quotes By Categories Top Quotes Daily Quotes
All Quotes By Categories Top Quotes Daily Quotes
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Quotes by English Grammar

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the... by A. A. Milne

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

A. A. Milne
letters english-grammar writing

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Bill Bryson
simple latin english-grammar
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its... by Joan Didion

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Didion
music power english-grammar

Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

John Muir
latin english-grammar memories
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of r... by Richard Chenevix Trench

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Richard Chenevix Trench
editing english-grammar writing

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Roald Dahl
powerful simple english-grammar

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

Robert Burchfield
english-grammar believe years

Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.

Robert A. Heinlein
simple latin english-grammar
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he a... by Robert Graves

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

Robert Graves
poet break english-grammar

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.

Robert Breault
grammar law english-grammar
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. by William Safire

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

William Safire
perfection perfect english-grammar
Follow Us
Share our quotes to your friends and family
  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Tweet with us on Twitter
Popular Categories
School Ideas Civilization Happy English Grammar Mulberry Foolish Sailor Sensible Secret
Popular Author

Chuck Hillig

Avatar for author: Julia Serano

Julia Serano

Writer

Avatar for author: Allan K. Chalmers

Allan K. Chalmers

Avatar for author: Liv Torc

Liv Torc

Organizer Don Grundmann

Copyright @2018 WhatsMyQuote
Terms of Service