Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
538
AUTHOR:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION:
This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
ATTRIBUTION:
WINSTON CHURCHILL, marginal note after receiving a civil servant’s objection to the ending of a sentence with a preposition and the use of a dangling participle in official documents.—Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill, p. 166 (1966).
In other versions of this anecdote, the word “English” is often used instead of “pedantry.”
