Annoyance has made me bilingual.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse – German.

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

With languages, you are at home anywhere.

What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

No, it’s all Greek to me.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I’m afraid.””Any will do,” the rabbi replied in Provençal.”Splendid. Latin it is,” said Pope Clement.

It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name...

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I’m fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working...

We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn...

Miracle is only and essentially in the person’s inner feelings that touch people’s hearts, irrespective of the words, language or any mode employed to convey or communicate the message.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to [“How are you?”] is “I’m fine, and you?” In German it’s answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by “Not so good.

People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages.”I hate you,” she said to me one afternoon. Her English was flawless....

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman...

A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don’t use it, you loose it

my grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali”.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel… he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men… a good ruler has to learn his world’s language… it’s different for every...

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?”I’ve already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?”Elvish.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

Pojąłem, że każdy świat ma własną tajemnicę i że dostęp do niej jest tylko na drodze poznania języka. Rozumiałem, że im więcej będę znał słów, tym bogatszy, pełniejszy i bardziej różnorodny świat otworzy się przede...

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.