Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who…

“I guess you don’t study Latin and Greek if you don’t like putting in the hours.”

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

— Quintus Ennius

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that…

— Tony Harrison

Jack, my 16 year old, was in knots a couple of months back, studying for Latin. I said, "Mate, you've got no interest in…

— Gordon Ramsay

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

“However differently we spoke the language, as Spanish speakers, our close ties with Latin and Greek gave us a sense of superiority: we were…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of…

— Dimitri Gutas

I was 11 when I started Latin - not like boys, who start early at prep school. At 14, you had to choose whether…

— Mary Beard

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

“I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that…

— Bertrand Russell

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

— Edmund Waller

I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I…

— Neneh Cherry

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,…

— Arthur Koestler

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a…

— Susanne Katherina Langer