Bad Grammar Quotes:

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

- Joan Didion

topic: Play, Piano, Ears, English Grammar, Bad Grammar

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

- Dave Barry

topic: Painful Death, America, Causes, Leading Causes, Bad Grammar

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

- Benjamin Disraeli

source: Said while correcting proofs of his last Parliamentary speech, 31 March 1881, in Robert Blake 'Disraeli' (1966) ch. 32

topic: Talking, Luck, Grammar, Bad Grammar

This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Mean, Our World, Lions, Beavers, Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.

- George Eliot

topic: Omission, Sublime, Poet, Bad Grammar

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

- Mary McCarthy

topic: Levels, Matter, Poverty, Bad Grammar

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). “Aleph and other stories”, Penguin Classics

topic: Made, Grammar, Periods, Disdain, Oversight

What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

- Dave Barry

topic: War, Humorous, Painful Death, Leading Causes, Bad Grammar

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

- Andy Stanley

source: Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.24, Multnomah

topic: Hurt, Painful, Grammar, Painful Truth, Bad Grammar