A Quote by James M. Barrie

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

James M. Barrie

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Asked Asks England Examination Grammar Kings Like Paper Want What You Want

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James M. Barrie
British - Novelist
May 9, 1860 - June 19, 1937

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.

Farouk of Egypt

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.

Delphine de Vigan

Grammar, which can govern even Kings.

Moliere

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Bertrand Russell

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

Tom Duff

I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?

David L. Wolper

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

Richard Whately

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

John Dewey

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Moliere

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

Charlton Laird

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

Emily Saliers

I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.