70 Grammar Quotes and Sayings for Writers

Grammar serves as the foundation for writing that is superior, clearer and more succinct.

It provides an organizing framework for our language, empowering us to articulate complex ideas and emotions with effectiveness and precision.

Without grammar, our sentences would lack coherence and our thoughts would devolve into a disordered assortment of words.

Grammar is more than just a set of prescriptive rules; it is an inherent aspect of language. It cannot be artificially created or imposed with intent.

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Embedded within the very essence of the language we use daily, grammar is gradually revealed as we deepen our linguistic comprehension, uncovering its intricate layers.

As a linguistic instrument, grammar aids in the creation of lucid sentences and when harnessed correctly, it enhances our ability to communicate effectively.

In every language and for every writer, grammar is indispensable, acting as a key to unleash the full potential of our communication, both in writing and in speech.


Top 10 Grammar Quotes

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Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms. ~ Frederick Lindemann.

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I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. ~ Maurice Saatchi.

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Quotation is a noun. Quote is a verb. ~ Eusebius Clay.

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Irregularity in grammar seems like the epitome of human eccentricity and quirkiness. ~ Steven Pinker.

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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~ Richard Chenevix Trench.

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The past is always tense, the future perfect. ~ Zadie Smith.

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There’s no reason why you can’t deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. ~ Toby Young.

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Grammar, which can govern even Kings. ~ Moliere.

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If Language is a Flower then without Grammar it will not smell. ~ Purushottam Muley.

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Grammar stops at love, and at art. ~ Terri Guillemets.

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Famous Grammar Quotes

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy. ~ Tony Parsons.

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Forget grammar and think about potatoes. ~ Gertrude Stein.

I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! ~ Russell Brand.

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The best grammarian still can’t write a verse. ~ Dagobert D. Runes.

If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants. ~ T.K. Naliaka.

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I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. ~ Mark Twain.

A philosopher once said, ‘Half of good philosophy is good grammar.’ ~ A. P. Martinich.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ~ E. B. White.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. ~ Mark Twain.

Grammar is politics by other means. ~ Donna J. Haraway.

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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ~ Benjamin Disraeli.

Having sex with a dead grammar teacher is a violation of past tense usage. ~ Dana Gould.

Grammar is the analysis of language. ~ Edgar Allan Poe.

Best Grammar Quotes

When a thought takes one’s breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. ~ Thomas W. Higginson.

My grammar be’s ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic. ~ Nelly.

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Statistics is the grammar of science. ~ Karl Pearson.

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

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar. ~ Isaac Goldberg.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America. ~ Dave Barry.

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I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. ~ George Bernard Shaw.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~ William Safire.

The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar. ~ Michel de Montaigne.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ~ Octavio Paz.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good? ~ Artemus Ward.

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Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus. ~ D. T. Max.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. ~ Moliere.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society. ~ Maurice Druon.

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That is the correct grammar, you know: her husband and me. ~ Gillian Flynn.

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When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing. ~ Adi Shankara.

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. ~ Rosenstock Huessy.

A man’s grammar, like Caesar’s wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. ~ Edgar Allan Poe.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. ~ William Somerset Maugham.

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In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers. ~ Martin Worthington.

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

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you, but nothing will replace it, and once mastered it will support you like a rock. ~ B. J. Chute.

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Grammar is the grave of letters. ~ Elbert Hubbard.

Great Grammar Quotes

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

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying. ~ Noam Chomsky.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. ~ Oscar Wilde.

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Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don’t you find? ~ Lemony Snicket.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’am’s than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~ H. L. Mencken.

Grammar is…the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. ~ Stephen King.

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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. ~ Robert Frost.

I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. ~ 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.

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Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar. ~ Willard Van Orman Quine.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. ~ Robert Breault.

Powerful Grammar Quotes

Grammar to a writer is to a mountaineer a good pair of hiking boots or, more precisely, to a deep-sea diver an oxygen tank. ~ A.A. Patawaran.

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Moods are adjectives of the grammar of life. ~ Raheel Farooq.

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better. ~ Andy Zaltzman.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. ~ Joseph Joubert.

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Grammar is like a strive for perfection. It’s useless really. ~ S. Khemka.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein.


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