Quotes on grammar
When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.
Chandler, Raymond
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Jackson, Andrew
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
Gourmont, Rémy de
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
Churchill, Winston
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
Pomeroy, Owens Lee
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Twain, Mark
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Trench, Richard C.
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Hemingway, Ernest
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
Mencken, H.L.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
Safire, William
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.
Twain, Mark
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Milne, A.A.