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

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

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

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

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

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.

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Language is the archives of history.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

It is a luxury to be understood.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.