Foreign Tongue Quotes
- The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I… — Tim Ferriss
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. — Virginia Woolf
- Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are… — Rainer Maria Rilke
- She is written in a foreign tongue. — Henry James
- The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough… — Monique Truong
- Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language… — Barbara Kingsolver
- I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally… — Jerome K. Jerome