Certain Quote by Robert Fitzgerald

I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole…

— Alice Oswald

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

— Dakin Matthews

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

— Juvenal

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was…

— Michael Dirda

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

— Larry Wall

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

— Anne Rice