languages quotes

I’m about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘