Famous quotes containing the words traditional and/or language:
“To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Though language forms the preacher,
‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)