Latin Phrase Quotes

#1. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. We might even say that the world is always in medias res - a Latin phrase which means "in the midst of things" or "in the middle of a narrative" - and that it is impossible to solve any mystery, or find the root of any trouble,

Lemony Snicket

#3. Sed lex, dura lex," said Balogh. The latin phrase had been hammered into them from the first day of the Academy, and Simon was comming to hate the sound of it -so often was it used as an excuse for acting like monsters.

Cassandra Clare

#4. I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

Mike Birbiglia

#5. I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

Shannon A. Thompson

#6. See? You're the crazy one, you redheaded freak.
I've been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto.

Kirsten Miller

#7. The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard, Varys said. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves.

George R R Martin

#8. Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

John Lyly

#9. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

Woody Harrelson

#10. 'Es cor meum,' he murmured, his eyes dancing over my face.
Though I'd never heard the phrase, I responded: 'Ut tu meus.' As you are mine.

T.J. Klune

#11. Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Tom Stoppard

#12. That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

L. M. Boyd

#13. Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Susan Sontag

#14. There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

Lady Bird Johnson