Dead Language Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. Itâ€™s a dead language. The thing is,… — Steven Furtick
Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about… — Lewis Mumford
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told… — Mark Twain
Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader. — Jerry Scott
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in… — Adrienne Rich
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce
Im just a moment, so dont let me pass you by We could be a story in the morning, but well be a legend tonight… — All Time Low
I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at… — Hussein Nishah
Some hard and dry book in a dead language, which you have found it impossible to read at home, but for which you still have… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Dead Language Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Dead Language Quotes as follows: