Latin Quotes

563 Latin quotes by 376 unique authors

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally. — Edward Abbey
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. — Edward Abbey
Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race. — Margaret Sanger
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. — Robert Fitzgerald
The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is… — Malcolm X
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing… — Evan Esar
Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference. — Sofia Vergara
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Unknown Author
The dice has been cast. — Julius Caesar
Whoever desires is always poor. — Claudius Claudianus
Even one hair has a shadow. — Publilius Syrus
Where there is unity, there is the victory. — Publilius Syrus
It's a bad plan that can't be changed. — Publilius Syrus
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts. — Margarita Engle
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose… — Blaise Cendrars
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men. — Cesar Romero
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February… — Cesar Romero
I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is… — Sebastian Pinera
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with… — Bill Bryson
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what… — Nalo Hopkinson
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a… — Edward Sapir
English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of… — Edward Sapir

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