Quote by Dean Koontz

“I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?”

— LJ Smith

“Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do…

— Catullus

“Latin is an abomination!”

— Lew Wallace

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

— Ovid

“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.”

— Virgil

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

— Brander Matthews

“Mis sentimientos no importan.”

— Estefania Alvarez

“I loved those Latin words for their dignity, their foreignness, and the way my tongue had to wrap around them. I felt that in…

— Abraham Verghese

“Normalis est iustus extrarium cum a operias Latin for"Normal is just an outsider with a cover”

— Ashley Seeley

“Ille mi par esse deo videtur ille, si fas est, superare divos, qui sedens adversus identitem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem, misero quod…

— Gaius Valerius Catullus

“[...] or, aici stă toată mizeria și toată fascinația dragostei, în descompunerea aceasta lentă a două ființe strânse împreună...”

— Mircea Eliade

“Pudesse eu ser a lua, a lua terna, E faria que a noite fosse eterna”

— José Joaquim Cesário Verde