Faults Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faults Increase Language Spoil Translations
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.” — Fraus-Dolus Copy Share Image
Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
How come you don't feel that magic in the air? I guess I knew you'll never be there. I guess I knew you never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. — Charles Marion Russell Copy Share Image
LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
