Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Latin. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Latin Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including Cesar Romero,Bobby Bonilla,Bill Bryson,Eyvind Kang,Peter Brodie for you to enjoy and share.
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men. -- Cesar Romero
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart. -- Bobby Bonilla
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common. -- Bill Bryson
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense. -- Eyvind Kang
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day." -- Peter Brodie
I'm Latin - we start young, honey! -- Zoe Saldana
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school. -- Robert David Hall
If there's a password needed at the gates of heaven, only Latin will unlock it, he thinks. -- Kimberly Morgan
Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. -- Bill Bryson
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ... -- John Geddes
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. -- Hilaire Belloc
Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. -- Lawrence Lessig
And once he had got really drunk on wine,
Then he would speak no language but Latin. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] -- Ovid
For my part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare
I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin. -- Madeline Zima
Time was also (as an infant) I knew no Latin; but this I learned without fear or suffering, by mere observation, amid the caresses of my nursery and jests of friends, smiling and sportively encouraging me. -- Augustine Of Hippo
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. -- Robert Fitzgerald
He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it. -- Robert Frost
Perhaps the locale of the subjunctive mood will
one day be found. Will Latins turn out to be extravagantly endowed and English-speaking peoples significantly short-changed in this minor piece of brain anatomy? -- Carl Sagan
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. -- Brander Matthews
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology. -- George Emil Palade
You can say any sort of nonsense in Latin, and our feeble university men will be stunned, or at least profoundly confused. That's how the popes have gotten away with peddling bad religion for so long, they simply say it in Latin. -- Neal Stephenson
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom. -- Upton Sinclair
I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity. -- Benito Mussolini
I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin. -- Michel Templet
I'm pretty good with languages. -- Marisol Nichols
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. -- Juvenal
Expressed in Latin, it would have read Exi, impie, exi, scelerate, exi cum omnia fallacia tua, which translates into English as "Depart, impious one, depart, accursed one, depart with all your deceits. -- Dean Koontz
Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man. -- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. -- Miguel De Cervantes
That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't? -- Edward Eager
I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something. -- Kate Hattemer
I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun.
Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones. -- Richelle Mead
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces. -- Alice Oswald
I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. -- Cristina Kirchner
We must have that put in Latin - We do what we can - on -- Edward Albee
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. -- Lytton Strachey
The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto. -- Joe Hill
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it. -- Charlton Laird
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun. -- Julie Andrews Edwards
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear. -- Michel De Montaigne
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. -- Stevie Wonder
Braccas meas vescimini!
I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!'
-Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan
One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa. -- D.h. Lawrence
but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. -- Stuart Sherman
Translating is writing. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life. -- Monica Furlong
To me, being Latin is about more than your looks - it's how you're brought up. -- Bella Thorne
I miss Latin. So much fun
all those exciting verbs that don't come until the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language. -- Libba Bray
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary. -- Robert Fitzgerald
I am not talking to you," said Abrenuncio. "I think in Low Latin. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Dream of a Common Language -- Cheryl Strayed
Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good. -- George Farquhar
My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them. -- Jean Fritz
Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. -- Gloria Estefan
In the history of humanity, there have been many languages, including French, that have served as universal languages: Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Yet none of them ever ruled the world the way English does today. -- Minae Mizumura
Go to the devil with your Latin. Let us drink, my dear d'Artagnan, MORBLEU! Let us drink while the wine is fresh! Let -- Alexandre Dumas
I know what the structure of the language is. -- Kurt Loder
The language of the heart is mankind's main common language. -- Suzy Kassem
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. -- Lytton Strachey
The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular. -- Timothy Leary
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients. -- Rita Mae Brown
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America. -- Christopher Morley
Different languages cut the world into different slices. -- Jean Berko Gleason
I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor. -- Ilona Andrews
There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things. -- Paulo Coelho
People don't realize that when you're Latin, you're so diverse. I am black. I am Latin. I am Spanish. You know? It's a little bit of everything, and that's beautiful. So, everybody, claim me. I'm fine with that! -- Joan Smalls
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid. -- John Leguizamo
Bene!" And in English, "Well! What now, Dom? -- Kristen Heitzmann
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. -- W. H. Auden
There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language. -- Frantz Fanon
If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain. -- Don Delillo
My homeland is the portuguese language. -- Fernando Pessoa
Non ... Gratum ... Anum ... Ro - ' I can't make that out." "Rodentum," Bosch said. Sakai looked at him. "Dog Latin," Bosch told him. "Not worth a rat's ass. He was a tunnel rat. Vietnam. -- Michael Connelly
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant I try and I achieve. -- Anthony Horowitz
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. -- Walter Pater
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter. -- William Allan
Shit is universal no matter which language. -- Don Delillo
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary. -- Wladyslaw Reymont
Languages are the keys of science. -- Jean De La Bruyere
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification. -- Maturin Murray Ballou
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare
Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant. -- Richard Morris
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first. -- Prince Royce
My language is the sum total of myself. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Our language is the language of Shakespeare, Thompson and Milton, as we sit and croon like bilious pigeons. -- George Bernard Shaw
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. -- Karen Marie Moning
With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days. -- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. -- Edmund Waller
THE GREEK INTERPRETER -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015]. -- Michael Gordin
Students were expected to learn hundreds of lines from the Greek and Roman classics, then, later, from poetry in their native tongues. This tradition has faded from our lives, and something powerful has been lost. -- Ken Ludwig
I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?"
"Elvish. -- Michelle Hodkin
Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
