Catholic Quote by L. M. Boyd

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

— John Richard Green

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John…

— John Arbuthnot

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the…

— Pat Conroy

“APORIA  (APO'RIA) n.s. [a figure in rhetorick, by which the speaker shews, that he doubts where to begin for the multitude of matter, or what…

— Samuel Johnson

“I resume my pen, in reply to the curious epistle, you have been pleased to favour me with; and can assure you, that, notwithstanding,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Brandon McCaw and King Richard says but it was not the Latin of Cicero or even the Latin of the ordinary Roman citizen. It…

— Brandon McCaw

“Days when I came to flower serenely in Lycée gardens long ago, and read my Apuleius keenly, but spared no glance for Cicero.”

— Alexander Pushkin

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

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

— Dr. Seuss

“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

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

— N. Scott Momaday

“A future priest, I faced her as before an altar: one of her cheeks was the Epistle and the other the Gospel. Her mouth…

— Machado de Assis