Dead Language Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is,…
— Steven Furtick
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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
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
— William Hazlitt
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.
— Jerry Scott
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: