123 Quotes About Languages

There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.

What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi.

my grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali”.

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.