Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    “He said the dead had souls, but when I asked him
    How could that be—I thought the dead were souls,
    He broke my trance. Don’t that make you suspicious
    That there’s something the dead are keeping back?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)