Bad Quote by Keith Gessen

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

— Tom Tancredo

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

— Roman Jakobson

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

— S. I. Hayakawa

That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

— Henry Louis Gates

“It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected…

— Jacques Barzun

Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself…

— Brian Regan

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs in society; the old language…

— David Crystal

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

“Another area of thinking where bilinguals have been shown to excel is divergent thinking, the ability to come up with many different solutions rather…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a…

— Richard Lamm

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

— Andrew Lakey