Latin quotes

Latin. Langage naturel de l'homme. Ga"  te l'e  criture. Est seulement utile pour comprendre les inscriptions des fontaines publiques. Il faut se me  fier des citations en Latin; elles cachent toujours quelque chose de leste. Latin. Man's natural language. Spoils your style.Useful only for reading the inscriptions on public fountains. Beware of quotations in Latin: theyalways conceal something improper.

- Gustave Flaubert
Bouvard et Pe  cuchet avec un choix des sce  narios, du Sottisier, L'Album de la Marquise et Le Dictionnaire des ide  es re c° ues. (published1881, translated by Geoffrey Wall,1994).

Nothing†makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get the taste for it they take to it like drink.

- Shirley Hazzard
  People in Glass Houses,'Official Life'.

Thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

- Ben Jonson
  'To the Memory of My Beloved,  the  Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us', prefatorydedicationto the first folio of Shakespeare's plays.

I am what is called a professor emeritusfrom the Latin e,'out', and meritus,'so he ought to be'.

- Stephen Butler Leacock
  Here are my Lectures, ch.14.

Our fathers have, in process of centuries, provided this realm, its colonies and wide dependencies, with a speech as malleable and pliant as Attic, dignified as Latin, masculine, yet free of Teutonic guttural, capable of being precise as French, dulcet as Italian, sonorous as Spanish, and captaining all these excellences to its service.

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  The Oxford Book of EnglishVerse, preface.

Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

- Edmund Spenser
Prosopopoia, l.385^9.

La Ame  rica Latina debe lo que es al europeo blanco y no va a renegar de e  l†Sin embargo, aceptamos los ideales superiores del blanco, pero no su arrogancia. Latin America owes its being to the European, and should not deny it†but, while accepting the white man's superior ideals, we do not accept his arrogance.

-Jose Vasconcelos
  La raza co  smica (translated asThe Cosmic Race,1979), pt.1, ch.2.

Don't quote Latin; say what you have to say, and then sit down.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Advice to a new member of Parliament.