Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.