Moliere Quotes

Sometimes with 'The New Yorker,' they have grammar rules that just don't feel right in my mouth.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

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

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I know what the structure of the language is.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

I'd rather split an infinitive than split an idea.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

Grammar is the analysis of language.