Shanghai Foreign Language

Famous quotes containing the words foreign language, shanghai, 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)

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

    “I am tired of loving a foreign muse.”
    —Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

    ““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)