Silver Latin

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or latin:

    Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote;
    Spread o’er the silver waves thy golden hairs,
    And as a bed I’ll take them, and there lie.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)