Lesser Polish Dialect

Famous quotes containing the words lesser, polish and/or dialect:

“The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)