Quotations About Grammar

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.  
Rémy de Gourmont
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.  
Robert Graves
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.  
Mark Twain
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 Brault
When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.  
Raymond Chandler
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson:  you find the present tense, but the past perfect!  
Owens Lee Pomeroy
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.  
Bronson Alcott
My spelling is Wobbly.  It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. 
A.A. Milne

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