Subject/grammar

Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or grammar:

“There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)