Quotes & Sayings About Grammatical Errors

She glanced again at the number of page views on her blog from last month: 18. Three for every post she'd written. Sean, her mother, and Izzy (her best friend), no doubt. Although Allyson wasn't sure if Izzy had read the last post, and her mother had commented that she'd read it twice, pointing out three grammatical errors. — Tricia Goyer

The amount of money I would pay for people to stop fucking up grammar is only slightly lower than the amount I'd give to ensure I never have grammatical errors in the statements I make calling others out on their grammatical errors. — Jenny Lawson

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. — E. E. Cummings

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society. — Marshall McLuhan

It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail. — Christina Engela

Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between "he"
and "I. — Linda Pastan

For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical correctitude sometimes proves easier to urge than to achieve. Among the errors cited in this book are a number committed by some of the leading authorities of this century. If men such as Fowler and Bernstein and Quirk and Howard cannot always get their English right, is it reasonable to expect the rest of us to? — Bill Bryson

If there are spelling and grammatical errors, assume that the same level of attention to detail probably went into the gathering and reporting of the "facts" given on the site. — Randolph Hock

Though bad writing has always been with us, the rules of correct usage are the smallest part of the problem. Any competent copy editor can turn a passage that is turgid, opaque, and filled with grammatical errors into a passage that is turgid, opaque, and free of grammatical errors. Rules of usage are well worth mastering, but they pale in importance behind principles of clarity, style, coherence, and consideration for the reader. — Steven Pinker

There were grammatical errors even in his silence. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

And last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading ... excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors ... I'm not a proofreader of any great merit. — Mark Twain