Grammar Quotations
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| When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split. | |||
| - Raymond Chandler | |||
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| Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. | |||
| - George Eliot | |||
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| Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. | |||
| - Rémy de Gourmont | |||
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| It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. | |||
| - Andrew Jackson | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. | |||
| - A.A. Milne | |||
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| I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||