Language Isolates

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or isolates:

    “One who speaks a foreign language just a little takes more pleasure in it than one who speaks it well. Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)