grammar quotes

La ge  ome  trie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est a'   l'art de l'e  crivain. Geometry is to sculpture what grammar is to the art of the writer.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les Peintres cubistes; Me  ditations esthe  tiques,'Sur la peinture, 3'.

   I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks.Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

- Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
  In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

Mystical grammar of amorous glances, Feeling of pulses the physic of love, Rhetorical courtings, and musical dances; Numbering of kisses arithmetic prove.

-John Cleveland
  'Mark  Antony'.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

- Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
On correcting proofs of his last parliamentary speech, 31 Mar. Quoted in Robert Blake Disraeli, ch.32.

To be loose with grammar is to be loose with the worst woman in the world.

- Otis C(arl),Jr Edwards
  New Testament lecture, Nashotah House,10  Jan.

Let school-masters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  She Stoops to Conquer, act1, sc.2.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax† [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

-1st Baron
  'Robert Montgomery', in the Edinburgh Review,  Apr.

La grammaire qui sait re  genter jusqu'aux rois. Even kings must bow to grammar.

-Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molie'  re
  Les femmes savantes, act 2, sc.6.

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books.

-Jonathan Sacks
  In The Independent, 30 Jun.

   I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

- Carl Sandburg
  The People,Yes.

I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Eliza Doolittle. Pygmalion, act 2.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

- Artemus pseudonym of  Charles Farrar Browne Ward
  ArtemusWard in London, and Other Papers,'Pyrotechny', 5.