Foreign Languages

Famous quotes containing the words foreign languages, foreign and/or languages:

    “If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “the young men who watch us from the curbs:
    They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
    Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
    The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
    —Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)