Mandatory Foreign Language

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

    “There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “Off south, the bison multiply so fast
    a slaughter’s mandatory every spring
    and every spring the creeks get fat
    and Kicking Horse fills up.”
    —Richard Hugo (1923–1982)

    “Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “No language is rude that can boast polite writers.”
    —Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)