Huns/language

Famous quotes containing the words huns and/or language:

    Frogs are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
    Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)

    There’s a cool web of language winds us in,
    Retreat from too much joy or too much fear:
    We grow sea-green at last and coldly die
    In brininess and volubility.
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)