Famous quotes containing the words word and/or barbarian:
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy. My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)