Famous grammar quotations

   Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.  Nice Word by George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

   This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.  Meaningful Quotation by Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.  Good Quote by Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language

   Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.  Wise Phrase by Bronson Alcott

   Ignorant 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.  Wise Phrase by Mark Twain

   It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.  Famous Saying by Andrew Jackson

   Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.  Nice Word by Richard C. Trench

   When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.  Meaningful Quotation by Raymond Chandler

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

   I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.  Wise Phrase by Mark Twain

   Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!  Wise Phrase by Owens Lee Pomeroy

   Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.  Famous Saying by Rémy de Gourmont

   Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.  Nice Word by William Safire



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