John Dryden Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

  John Dryden

  Language, Well Said, Wit

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668)

• I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

  John Dryden

  Life, Native Language, Trade

  John Dryden (1988). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, 1697”, p.336, Univ of California Press

• Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

  John Dryden

  Tree, Verbs, Nouns

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.353

• It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Latin, Expression

  "William Gilbert of Colchester". Book by P. Fleury Mottelay, 1893.

• Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

  John Dryden

  Beautiful, Language, Sometimes

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.163, Oxford University Press, USA

• Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

  John Dryden

  Children, Love Is, Broken

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.294, Univ of California Press

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