Ancient Quote by W. H. Auden

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

— Paul O'Grady

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the…

— Joshua Foer

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

— Buck Henry

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where…

— William Scott

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

— Cullen Murphy

“In the history of humanity, there have been many languages, including French, that have served as universal languages: Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and more. Yet…

— Minae Mizumura

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of…

— W. H. Auden

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual…

— Daniel Everett

I have so many languages in my mind and it's something nice to be able to speak languages in the game.

— Andre Onana