#mma

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#grammar #humour #advertising

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! ↗

— Roald Dahl

#mathematics

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#gossip

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. ↗

— MaryJanice Davidson

#maturity

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#grammar #stupid #tolerance

It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're. ↗

— Cara Lynn Shultz

#grammar

I just practically begged him to kiss me, and he’s critiquing my grammar? ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#sky-and-holder #sky-davis #grammar

English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. ↗

— James Nicoll

#grammar #humor #humor

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility? ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #art

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island ↗

— C. B. Murphy

#filmmaking #outsider-art #sex #art