(57 quotes found)
“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
E. B. White
“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest”
Michel de Montaigne
“The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”
Winston Churchill
“Why care for grammar as long as we are good?”
Artemus Ward (writer)
“Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.”
William Cobbett
“Statistics is the grammar of science.”
Karl Pearson
“I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.”
Emperor Sigismund
“To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.”
Otis C. Edwards
“Understand and appreciate the grammar of humanity of persons’ earthy voice than the grammar of language of persons' choice.”
Anuj Somany
“Sorry for my bad English, I'm American.”
Marie Muhammad
