Shanghai Foreign Language

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai, foreign and/or language:

    “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
    —Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

    “Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
    —Stephen Decatur (1779–1820)

    ““What may this mean? Language of Man pronounced
    By tongue of brute, and human sense expressed!
    The first at least of these I thought denied
    To beasts, whom God on their creation-day
    Created mute to all articulate sound;
    The latter I demur, for in their looks
    Much reason, and in their actions, oft appears.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)