Preposition Quotes

#1. She tried discreetly to squint and instead came off looking as if she had discreetly farted.

Alessandra Torre

#2. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion

John Piper

#3. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

#4. What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.

Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

#5. If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.

Don DeLillo

#6. It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Kingsley Amis

#7. Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'

Winston Churchill

#8. The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.

Dalai Lama

#9. There are many people like me who believe firmly, if somewhat incoherently, that pockets on this planet are filled with what humans have left behind them, both good and evil, and that any such spiritual accumulation can stay there forever, past definition of such a stern word.

M.F.K. Fisher

#10. A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

Berton Braley

#11. Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

Edgar Guest

#12. Lord, be my rock of safety, the stronghold that saves me. For the honor of your name lead me and guide me.

Anonymous

#13. I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell.

Matthew Pearl

#14. Who are you going swimming with?" Kinsley asked again.

"You're not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition," I replied.

"Stop changing the subject! With whom do you plan to swim?!

R.S. Grey

#15. It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier.

David Foster Wallace

#16. A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

Winston S. Churchill

#17. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston S. Churchill

#18. Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

Peter Watts

#19. I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.

Tahereh Mafi

#20. I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

William Zinsser

#21. You are all at once the subject, object, predicate, preposition, and period of my thoughts.

Daria Snadowsky

#22. If is a very big preposition.

John Major