2,489 Quotes About Language

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.