Latin/vocabulary

Famous quotes containing the words latin and/or vocabulary:

    “He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
    The peculiar potency of the general,
    To compound the imagination’s Latin with
    The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)