multilingual quotes

6 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.

Noam Chomsky

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

Maya Angelou

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

Bill Gates

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

Maya Angelou

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Rihanna