| Author |
Quotes |
| Ben Jonson | Small Latin, and less Greek. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | It is Hebrew to me. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. |
| John Gay | Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. |
| Persius Flaccus | He attempts to use language which he does not know. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own. |
| Samuel Butler | Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak, That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. |
| Samuel Butler | A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. |
| Samuel Butler | For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler , |
| William Shakespeare | This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. |
| William Shakespeare | But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads, but for mine own part, if was Greek to me. |
| William Shakespeare | Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. |
| William Shakespeare | O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English. |
| William Shakespeare | He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. |
| William Shakespeare | But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives, And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want-- |
| William Cowper | . . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark. |
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