Quotes / Gratuitous Latin

You must say things
Like micturate, defecate, intercourse
You can't say things
Like pissing and shitting and fuck
Although they're the same
Although it's a pain
You've got to use the Latin name

—The Amateur Transplants, Dorsal Horn Concerto

"Okay, it's in Latin, so don't laugh. It's supposed to sound like this."

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Centaurum iacio!"^Lat. "I throw the Centaur".

—Erik Servint, in Susan's Sorcerer, magically throwing a disguised Agent against a large cauldron.

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.^Lat. "I will assfuck and skullfuck you, you bottom Aurelius and you faggot Furius! You who think because my poems are sentimental, that I have no shame.'' Latin Cluster F-Bomb-ing at its finest.

—Gaius Valerius Catullus

Agatín: "You are going to make that lady and that knight think I am a crook."
Fortún Paja: "That lady and that knight don't care by the likes of you, dear Agatín."
Agatín: "Pulvis et umbra sumus (We are dust and shadows)."
Fortún Paja: "I'm warning you: I don't know a word of Greek."
Agatín: "Vita est brevis (Life is short)."
Fortún Paja: ""
Agatín: "I mean: 'We are nothing'."

— The Sword of Saint Ferdinand

Sometimes you're queueing at a petrol station at 3:00A.M. in the morning, and there's a line of murderers behind you, and you turn around and go, "Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant!" and they go, "Fuck, he knows Latin! He knows a dead language! Run!"

— Eddie Izzard, Definite Article

"And the Romans did all this with a language that we know from school is silly. It's a silly billy language. It has a nominative, a vocative, accusative, a genitive, a dative and ablative— fuck off!"

— Eddie Izzard, Stripped

Jim Hacker: Look at Latin, hardly anybody uses that nowadays.

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. ^Lat. Times are changed; we also are changed with them.

Hacker: ...what?

Humphrey: Times change, and we change with the times.

Hacker: Precisely.

Humphrey: Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.^Lat. If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher.

Hacker: What does that mean?

Humphrey: If you'd kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.

— Yes, Prime Minister