Other Tongues Quotes
- A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood… — H. L. Mencken
- When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders;… — Geraldine Brooks