My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. ~A.A. Milne
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. ~Bronson Alcott
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot,Middlemarch, 1872
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ~Richard C. Trench
It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word. ~Andrew Jackson
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. ~Mark Twain
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, The American Language
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language… the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. ~Rémy de Gourmont
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
When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split. ~Raymond Chandler
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar. ~Robert Brault,
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. ~Attributed to Winston Churchill, rejecting the rule against ending a sentence with a preposition, c.1948, may instead have been said by an anonymous official, see notes at www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire
