Quotes About Languages

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
-Ambrose Bierce

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
- John French

Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you're just used to it.
- Linguistic Mystic

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generation.
- Edward Sapir

I am sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Dr Johnson

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
- Dave Barry

When you can speak another language you go from being a person in an adult's body, pointing at things like a child, to being able to communicate with people like an adult again.
- Eddie Izzard

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown

Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon

A different language is a different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini

Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb