Quotes

A linguistic work translated into another language is like someone going across the border without his skin and putting on the local garb on the other side.

Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
Austrian writer.


A translator is to be like his author, it is not his business to excel him.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
British lexicographer and writer.


An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864 - 1936)
Spanish writer and philosopher.
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples


Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

John Denham (1615 - 1669)
Irish poet.
"To Richard Fanshaw"


The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Argentinian writer and poet.Referring to Henley's translation of Vathek: An Arabian Tale (1786) by the British writer William Beckford.
"Sobre el 'Vathek' de William Beckford"


Translating is the ultimate act of comprehending.

Alberto Manguel (1948 - )
Argentinian writer.
A History of Reading


I can't do the translation of Eliot's poems, for one thing because they would demand a great deal of work, and I already have too much. Besides, they're very hard for a non-Englishman to understand.

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
German playwright and poet.Referring to T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939). Letter to Peter Suhrkamp


The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin...The King James translation makes a promise in "Thou shalt," meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel--"Thou mayest"--that gives a choice.

John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
U.S. novelist.Referring to Genesis 4:7.
East of Eden


I never realized that there are 14 distinct languages in India. Now that I understand that, we're going to invest a whole lot more in localizing our products.

Bill Gates (1955 - )
U.S. business executive.

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