I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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.
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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