Citas gramaticales

• La gramática no es un conjunto de reglas; es algo inherente a la lengua, y ésta no puede existir sin ella. Se puede descubrir, pero no inventar.

  Charlton Laird

  Lengua, inherente

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• people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

  Mary Jane Holmes

  People, Ridiculous, Language

  Mary Jane Holmes (1871). “The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World”, p.81

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• el inglés no toma prestado de otros idiomas. el inglés sigue a otros idiomas por callejones oscuros, los derriba y rebusca en sus bolsillos en busca de gramática suelta.

  James Nicoll

  Oscuridad, Bolsillos, Lengua

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• Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

  Joan Didion

  Music, Power, English Grammar

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 16, 2011

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• Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Reflection, Made, Impression

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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Needs, Speech, Revelations

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• Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

  William Cobbett

  Men, Giving, Our Words

  William Cobbett (1847). “A grammar of the English language, etc”, p.15

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• Sólo en la gramática se puede ser más que perfecto.

  William Safire

  English Grammar, Perfect, Perfection

  William Safire (2011). “Watching My Language:: Adventures in the Word Trade”, p.383, Random House

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• There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

  Anthony Burgess

  Vocabulary, Earth, Flesh

  Anthony Burgess (1964). “Language made plain”

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• Conviene recordar que la gramática es el habla común formulada.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Speech, Common

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). "El propio Sr. Maugham"

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• Como todo lo metafísico, la armonía entre el pensamiento y la realidad se encuentra en la gramática de la lengua.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Realidad, lenguaje, armonía

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). "Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics", p.162, Univ of California Press

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• Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

  David Cristal

  Reading, Yield, Giving

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• Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

  Octavio Paz

  Criticism, Social, Critics

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.263, Grove Press

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• Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

  Robert Graves

  English Grammar, Poet, Break

  Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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• Un día los Sustantivos estaban agrupados en la calle.
  Pasó un Adjetivo, con su oscura belleza.
  Los Sustantivos fueron golpeados, movidos, cambiados.
  Al día siguiente llegó un Verbo y creó la Frase.

  Kenneth Koch

  Oscuro, Al día siguiente, Un día

  Kenneth Koch (2012). "On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988", p.75, Knopf

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• A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Numbers, Personality, Doe

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• Everything bows to success, even grammar.

  Victor Hugo

  Fortune Cookie, Bows

  Victor Hugo (1980). "Los miserables", Viking Pr

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Lessons, Impertinence

  Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”

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

  Robert Frost

  Country, Littles, Ifs

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• The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sarcasm, Misunderstood, Want

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.1206, Ageless Reads

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• Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

  Mark Twain

  Shame, Damn

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

  Isaac Babel

  Life, Heart, Iron

  1932 Guy de Maupassant.

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• Cuando divido un infinitivo, maldita sea, lo divido para que siga dividido.

  Raymond Chandler

  Splits, Damn, Infinitive

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• 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

  Made, Periods, Manifestation

  Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). "Aleph y otros cuentos", Penguin Classics

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