Committed Quote by Ezra Pound

“If Mr. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide. I do not counsel this. But I…

— William Gardner Hale

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh

— Chita Rivera

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

— Eddie Izzard

I was really good at Latin at school, and because I was good at it, I got more interested and got better at it.

— Mary Beard

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

— Jerry Scott

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

— Max Fischer

I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

— Seth Shostak

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Brander Matthews

I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!

— Odette Annable

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

— LJ Smith