Famous quotes containing the words norse and/or language:
“Carlyle has not the simple Homeric health of Wordsworth, nor the deliberate philosophic turn of Coleridge, nor the scholastic taste of Landor, but, though sick and under restraint, the constitutional vigor of one of his old Norse heroes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
—Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)