Grammar Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “All dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before – and thus was the Empire forged.”

Douglas Adams

Humor, Language, Adventure, Grammar, Empire

2. “Grammar is the analysis of language.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Language, Grammar, Structure, Philosophical Insight, Communication, Intellectual Observation

3. “Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.”

Henry James

Language, Writing, Style, Grammar, Expression, Creativity

4. “Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?”

Herman Melville

Greek Grammarians, Dual Number, Twin Humor, Grammar, Twins, Humor

5. “You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”

Robert Frost

Grammar, Country, Language, Humor, Poetic Observation, Place

6. “I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.”

George Bernard Shaw

Expression Over Rules, Feminine Communication, Personal Voice, Grammar, Lady, Talk

7. “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Winston Churchill

Grammar, Language, Humor, Rigidity, Wit

8. “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

Winston Churchill

Grammar, Prepositions, Language, Humor, Precision

9. “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

Winston Churchill

Humor, Language, Grammar, Pedantry, Wit

10. “One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.”

Winston Churchill

Language, Grammar, Precision, Writing, Purity

11. “Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in ‘What made you pick this book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?’”

Winston Churchill

Grammar, Language, Humor, Complexity, Wordplay

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