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)

“For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”
—Paul De Man (1919–1983)