Famous quotes containing the words foreign language, foreign, language and/or school:
“If you dont know foreign languages, you dont know anything about your own.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a painter; it may interest you to know that I have a daughter who paints on velvet.
Fuseli rose instantly and said in a strong foreign accent, Let me get out.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is not that the Englishman cant feelit is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talkshis pipe might fall out if he did.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)