(57 quotes found)
“I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“I wasn't particularly strong in the dramatic society, the drama group. I left Manchester Grammar School with abysmal A-level results. I then had a year's hiatus where I didn't know what to do at all.”
Ben Kingsley
“I, pro. In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number. Its plural is said to be "We", but how there can be more than one myself is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this incomparable dictionary. Conception”
Ambrose Bierce
“There are units in grammar, and units in vocabulary and even online where's there's audio support and video support. A great deal of this is based on visual interaction and visual memorizing,”
Graham Davies
“This grammar school boy is not going to take any lessons from a public school boy on children from less privileged backgrounds.”
Michael Howard
“. . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar.”
Gilbert Burnet
“I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.”
Louis Aragon
“It's all very well being a native speaker. But explaining complex grammar without training would be a nightmare. A course gives you practice. There's an obligation from schools to have professionally trained teachers, and your students expect to leave the classroom understanding what you've taught them.”
Sarah Wilson
“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.”
William Shakespeare
“Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use”
Mark Twain
