Grammatical Correctness Quotes

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.

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

I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don't always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

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

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

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.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.