12 Movie Quotes about Grammar (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 21, 2025

Memorable quotes about grammar, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Holy grammar! Is that all?

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

2 It's a disaster! An apostrophe!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 You can't get away from Batman that easy. -Easily. Good grammar is essential, Robin.

Adam West as Batman; Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

4 Now, there's going to be women with this column, and I want you men to watch them words. Watch them words! -Watch them grammar!

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

5 Yeah, a grave disappointment. -When did that happen? -When I was 21 years old. I wanted to go to college. -And what happened? -They wouldn't let me. They said I had to finish grammar school first.

Art Carney as Ed Norton in The Honeymooners (1955)

6 Allow me to interject an interjection.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

7 You're dreamin' about that blonde again. -I was remembering how low her voice is, how bad her grammar was at first. -And how you taught her English. -Yeah.

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

8 Sometimes, chum, you go soft-headed. I'd like to see any blonde do that to me. She's got you crazy. What's the gimmick? -Basic grammar. -I'll bet she talks beautifully by now. -Think so?

Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Warren "Rip" Murdock in Dead Reckoning (1947)

9 You told me about this yesterday. -I know, but I left out a comma.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

10 Good grammar there.

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

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