Quotations on Linguists | Quotations: 11 | Pages: 2
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
Away with him, away with him! He speaks Latin. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
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 linguis ... |
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by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(October 30, 1751 - July 7, 1816) |
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
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. |
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by Jean de La Bruyère
(August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696) |
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. |
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by John Gay
(September 16, 1685 - December 4, 1732) |
Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
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 spe ... |
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by Ben Jonson
(June 11, 1572 - August 6, 1637) |
Small Latin, and less Greek. |
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