Ungrammatical Quotes

#1. The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical ... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

Morris Kline

#2. You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Robert Frost

#3. People who mean well always do badly. They are like the ladies who wear clothes that don't fit them in order to show their piety. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. Man

Oscar Wilde

#4. Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

Brigham Young

#5. But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

Walt Whitman

#6. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules ... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Anthony Trollope

#8. Repetitions. The Greek is in places very ungrammatical and intractable.

Plato

#9. there used to be a shopkeeper in Bristol who deliberately stuck ungrammatical signs in his window as a ruse to draw people into the shop; they would come in to complain, and he would then talk them into buying something.

Lynne Truss

#10. That last bit of babble had gone home. How was they supposed to know, that was ungrammatical but right.

Stephen King

#11. People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

#12. What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

Mary McCarthy

#13. I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.

Eve Ensler

#14. Memories
fall
like
snowflakes
upon
my dreams.
The snowflakes
toss and tumble,
each different
and yet
the same.

Lisa Schroeder

#15. Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

Wallace Stegner

#16. He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

#17. I'm a big fan of the whip ... That snake whip was awesome!

Lily Collins

#18. The Key to Success is Action

Brian Tracy

#19. If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

Charlie Munger

#20. A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

John Abbott

#21. he struck her as beautiful in the way warriors were beautiful.

Julie Ann Walker