George Borrow

“Translation is at best an echo.”

“The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.”

“Life is sweet, brother.”

“A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.”

“Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and every man his hour.”

“There is no place like the world, I'm thinking, for agitating and improving the mind.”

“Honourable perhaps, but not fashionable.”

“Bless your honour's soul, and don't say a word more.”

“There's a wind on the heath.”

“Fear God, and take your own part.”

“There are no friends like old friends.”

“All I know of the matter is that I am a man, and that it is the nature of a man to be a devil.”

“The Romany tongue is a passport that will carry you through every country in Europe.”

“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.”